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title: Oh, I have seen it, and more than one betrothed maiden lives alone,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, I have seen it, and more than one betrothed maiden lives alone, broken-hearted. Who acts: I, one. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 110

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Oh, I have seen it, and more than one betrothed maiden lives alone, broken-hearted.

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**Who acts:** I, one · **What happens:** see, betroth, break · **To what, where:** sound, maiden lives

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:10:110
# text = Oh, I have seen it, and more than one betrothed maiden lives alone, broken-hearted.
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	11	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
12	betrothed	betroth	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · perfect | I | sound |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **betroth** | past | one | maiden lives |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hearted *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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