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title: And opening a curiously carved box, she took out a sea-shell shot wi… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And opening a curiously carved box, she took out a sea-shell shot with many colours, and sang a song softly into it. Who acts: pool. 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 112

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And opening a curiously carved box, she took out a sea-shell shot with many colours, and sang a song softly into it.

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**Who acts:** pool · **What happens:** open, carve, take out, sing · **To what, where:** carved box, shell shot, song

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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 (pool), 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:pg3282:10:112
# text = And opening a curiously carved box, she took out a sea-shell shot with many colours, and sang a song softly into it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	curiously	curiously	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | gerund | pool *not said here* | a carved box |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme |
| 2 | **carve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | curiously *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take out** | past | pool | a shell shot |  |  |  | with many colours | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shot=Theme |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | pool *not said here* | a song |  | song |  | softly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic into it=Recipient |

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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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