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title: At length Hábogi drew rein before a small house, very ugly and mean-… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length Hábogi drew rein before a small house, very ugly and mean-looking, and that seemed on the point of tumbling to pieces. Who acts: that, point. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 16

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At length Hábogi drew rein before a small house, very ugly and mean-looking, and that seemed on the point of tumbling to pieces.

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**Who acts:** that, point · **What happens:** draw, look, seem, tumble · **To what, where:** rein, length, point, pieces

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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 (that, point), 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:pg3282:14:16
# text = At length Hábogi drew rein before a small house, very ugly and mean-looking, and that seemed on the point of tumbling to pieces.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	Hábogi	Hábogi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	rein	rein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
20	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past |  | rein |  | length | before a small house |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **seem** | past | that |  |  | the point |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tumble** | gerund | the point *not said here* |  |  | pieces |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to piece=Initial\_Location |

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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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