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title: She also had her favourite name, but, just as she was going to say i… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She also had her favourite name, but, just as she was going to say it, she seemed to hear a voice whisper: “Marry no one who is not called Hábogi.” Who acts: Helga. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 75

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She also had her favourite name, but, just as she was going to say it, she seemed to hear a voice whisper: “Marry no one who is not called Hábogi.”

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**Who acts:** Helga · **What happens:** have, go, say, seem, hear, marry · **To what, where:** favourite name, name, voice whisper, one · **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 (Helga), 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:pg3282:13:75
# text = She also had her favourite name, but, just as she was going to say it, she seemed to hear a voice whisper: “Marry no one who is not called Hábogi.”
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	whisper	whisper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Marry	marry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	Hábogi	Hábogi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Helga | Helga's favourite name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past · progressive | Helga |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Helga *not said here* | name |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **seem** | past | Helga |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **hear** | to-infinitive | Helga *not said here* | a voice whisper |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whisper=Stimulus |
| 6 | **marry** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | no one |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 7 | **not** **call** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | no one |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 8 | **name** |  | Helga |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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