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title: “In four days,” replied the girl—who only promised to marry him in o… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “In four days,” replied the girl—who only promised to marry him in order to get rid of him—“in four days you will hardly be out of sight.” Who acts: girl, you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 2

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“In four days,” replied the girl—who only promised to marry him in order to get rid of him—“in four days you will hardly be out of sight.”

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**Who acts:** girl, you · **What happens:** reply, promise, marry, get, be · **To what, where:** him, sight · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, you), 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:pg3282:12:2
# text = “In four days,” replied the girl—who only promised to marry him in order to get rid of him—“in four days you will hardly be out of sight.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	20	mark	_	_
18	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	fixed	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
31	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the girl |  |  |  | day |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the girl *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  | sight |  | hardly *property* | 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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