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title: The little girl did not like being left alone in the hut, and cried… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The little girl did not like being left alone in the hut, and cried bitterly; but her brother told her that there was no use sitting down quietly to starve, and that whether he found any game or not he would certainly be back before the following night. Who acts: little girl, brother, use. A sentenc
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 101

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The little girl did not like being left alone in the hut, and cried bitterly; but her brother told her that there was no use sitting down quietly to starve, and that whether he found any game or not he would certainly be back before the following night.

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**Who acts:** little girl, brother, use · **What happens:** not like, leave, cry, tell, be, sit down · **To what, where:** hut, girl, game · **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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little girl, brother, use), 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:pg3282:14:101
# text = The little girl did not like being left alone in the hut, and cried bitterly; but her brother told her that there was no use sitting down quietly to starve, and that whether he found any game or not he would certainly be back before the following night.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
9	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
28	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	starve	starve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
39	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	det	_	_
40	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
44	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
45	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	cop	_	_
47	back	back	ADV	RB	_	38	conj	_	_
48	before	before	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	51	amod	_	_
51	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | the little girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** *not said to happen* | gerund · passive | the little girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the hut *result*; alone *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: in hut=Result |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  | bitterly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | girl's brother |  | girl |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **be** | past | no use |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **sit down** | gerund | no use *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down, quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **starve** | to-infinitive | no use *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **find** | past | use | any game |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Topic |
| 9 | **not** **is** | would | use |  |  |  | night | back, certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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