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title: “Well, it is lucky for you that there are a great many Sigmunds in t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well, it is lucky for you that there are a great many Sigmunds in this part of the world,” replied her father, “so that you can take your choice! Who acts: name, great many Sigmunds, father, you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 68

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“Well, it is lucky for you that there are a great many Sigmunds in this part of the world,” replied her father, “so that you can take your choice!

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**Who acts:** name, great many Sigmunds, father, you · **What happens:** be, reply, take · **To what, where:** choice · **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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, great many Sigmunds, father, 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:pg3282:13:68
# text = “Well, it is lucky for you that there are a great many Sigmunds in this part of the world,” replied her father, “so that you can take your choice!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	ccomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Sigmunds	sigmund	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
24	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	33	mark	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | name |  |  |  |  | for you; lucky *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **does** *in a quote* | present | a great many Sigmunds in this part of the world |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: express* | past | Sigmund's father |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | can | you | your choice |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Theme |

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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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