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title: “She SHALL not look so much finer than us,” they cried passionately… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “She SHALL not look so much finer than us,” they cried passionately to each other as soon as they were alone; and when night came they stole out of their rooms, and taking out the wedding-dress, they laid it in the ash-pit, and heaped ashes upon it. Who acts: Helga, sisters, night. A sentence of «Th
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 34

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“She SHALL not look so much finer than us,” they cried passionately to each other as soon as they were alone; and when night came they stole out of their rooms, and taking out the wedding-dress, they laid it in the ash-pit, and heaped ashes upon it.

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**Who acts:** Helga, sisters, night · **What happens:** not look, cry, be, come, steal, take out · **To what, where:** each, rooms, wedding dress, dress, ash pit, ashes · **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 (Helga, sisters, night), 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:pg3282:14:34
# text = “She SHALL not look so much finer than us,” they cried passionately to each other as soon as they were alone; and when night came they stole out of their rooms, and taking out the wedding-dress, they laid it in the ash-pit, and heaped ashes upon it.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	SHALL	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	finer	fine	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	passionately	passionately	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	14	obl	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
50	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	heaped	heap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
56	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obj	_	_
57	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **look** *in a quote* | shall | Helga |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | sisters *= sister* |  | each |  |  | passionately, soon *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past | night |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **steal** | past | sisters *= sister* |  |  | sisters's rooms |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out room=Location |
| 6 | **take out** | gerund | night *not said here* | the wedding dress |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
| 7 | **lay** | past | sisters *= sister* | dress |  | the ash pit |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pit=Destination |
| 8 | **heap** | past | sisters *= sister* *not said here* | ashes |  | dress |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ash=Theme upon it=Destination |

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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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