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title: He then helped the frightened and half-fainting girl into the large… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He then helped the frightened and half-fainting girl into the large cool verandah where her parents were sitting, and from that hour he was a welcome guest in the house, and it was not long before he was the promised husband of Julia. Who acts: Alonzo, house, parents. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 53

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He then helped the frightened and half-fainting girl into the large cool verandah where her parents were sitting, and from that hour he was a welcome guest in the house, and it was not long before he was the promised husband of Julia.

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**Who acts:** Alonzo, house, parents · **What happens:** help, frighten, faint, sit, be, not be · **To what, where:** girl, large cool verandah, welcome guest, house, promised husband

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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 (Alonzo, house, parents), 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:pg3282:10:53
# text = He then helped the frightened and half-fainting girl into the large cool verandah where her parents were sitting, and from that hour he was a welcome guest in the house, and it was not long before he was the promised husband of Julia.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
5	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	fainting	faint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	verandah	verandah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	welcome	welcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
40	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	amod	_	_
45	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	advcl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Julia	Julia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past | Alonzo |  |  |  | then |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **frighten** | participle | house *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **faint** | gerund | house *not said here* | girl |  | the large cool verandah |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit** | past · progressive | girl's parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Alonzo | a welcome guest |  | the house | hour |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **is** | past | house |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **promise** *speech: promise* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is a** | past | Alonzo | the promised husband |  |  |  | of Julia | tree rules |

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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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