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title: Her father and mother were delighted to see her, as they did not fee… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her father and mother were delighted to see her, as they did not feel sure that so ugly and cross-looking a man as Hábogi might not have played her some cruel trick. Who acts: father, Hábogi, ride. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependenc
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 28

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Her father and mother were delighted to see her, as they did not feel sure that so ugly and cross-looking a man as Hábogi might not have played her some cruel trick.

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**Who acts:** father, Hábogi, ride · **What happens:** be, see, not feel, cross-look, not play, trick · **To what, where:** ride, man, cruel trick

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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 (father, Hábogi, ride), 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:pg3282:14:28
# text = Her father and mother were delighted to see her, as they did not feel sure that so ugly and cross-looking a man as Hábogi might not have played her some cruel trick.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
16	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	cross-looking	cross-look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	Hábogi	Hábogi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux	_	_
29	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
32	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | ride's father and mother |  |  |  |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | ride's father and mother *not said here* | ride |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **feel** | past · do-support | father |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **cross-look** | gerund | father *not said here* | a man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **play** | might · perfect | Hábogi | ride's cruel trick |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme |
| 6 | **trick** |  | ride |  |  |  |  |  | nom trick «act 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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