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title: At last he built himself a hut, and filled it with skins for seats,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last he built himself a hut, and filled it with skins for seats, and made it as comfortable as any hut for miles round; and when it was quite finished he looked about among the young women to see which of them he should ask to be his wife. Who acts: kind. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by A
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 87

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At last he built himself a hut, and filled it with skins for seats, and made it as comfortable as any hut for miles round; and when it was quite finished he looked about among the young women to see which of them he should ask to be his wife.

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**Who acts:** kind · **What happens:** build, fill, make, finish, look, see · **To what, where:** kind, last, hut, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind), 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:pg3282:11:87
# text = At last he built himself a hut, and filled it with skins for seats, and made it as comfortable as any hut for miles round; and when it was quite finished he looked about among the young women to see which of them he should ask to be his wife.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	round	round	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
33	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	advcl	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
37	about	about	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	among	among	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obl	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	ccomp	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
51	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	cop	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | kind | kind |  | last |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary hut=Product |
| 2 | **fill** | past | kind *not said here* | hut |  |  |  | with skins for seats | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with skin=Instrument |
| 3 | **make** | past | kind *not said here* | hut |  |  |  | as any hut for miles; comfortable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 4 | **finish** | past · passive |  | hut |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 5 | **look** | past | kind |  |  |  |  | among the young women; about *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent among woman=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | kind *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | should | kind |  |  |  |  | of Turtle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |
| 8 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | kind's wife |  |  |  |  | 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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