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title: “Then you won’t be an old maid either,” answered he. — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Then you won’t be an old maid either,” answered he. Who acts: maid. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 71

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“Then you won’t be an old maid either,” answered he.

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**Who acts:** maid · **What happens:** not be, answer · **To what, where:** old maid, maid · **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 (maid), 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:pg3282:13:71
# text = “Then you won’t be an old maid either,” answered he.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
4	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
10	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | future | maid | a old maid |  |  | then | either *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | maid |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |

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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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