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title: Once upon a time there lived two peasants who had three daughters, a… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Once upon a time there lived two peasants who had three daughters, and, as generally happens, the youngest was the most beautiful and the best tempered, and when her sisters wanted to go out she was always ready to stay at home and do their work. Who acts: two peasants, youngest, best, sisters. A se
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 63

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Once upon a time there lived two peasants who had three daughters, and, as generally happens, the youngest was the most beautiful and the best tempered, and when her sisters wanted to go out she was always ready to stay at home and do their work.

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**Who acts:** two peasants, youngest, best, sisters, Hábogi · **What happens:** live, have, happen, be, temper, want out · **To what, where:** two peasants, three daughters, home, work

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two peasants, youngest, best, sisters), 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:pg3282:13:63
# text = Once upon a time there lived two peasants who had three daughters, and, as generally happens, the youngest was the most beautiful and the best tempered, and when her sisters wanted to go out she was always ready to stay at home and do their work.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	nsubj	_	_
29	tempered	temper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
32	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	35	mark	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	out	out	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	42	advmod	_	_
42	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
49	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | two peasants |  | there | time | once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme peasant=Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | two peasants | three daughters |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 3 | **happen** | present | the youngest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | generally *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the youngest |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **temper** | participle | the best |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **want out** | past | Hábogi's sisters |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **go out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Hábogi's sisters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | past | Hábogi |  |  |  |  | always, ready *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **stay** | to-infinitive | Hábogi *not said here* |  |  | home |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
| 10 | **do** | present | Hábogi *not said here* | sisters's work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 11 | **work** |  | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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