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title: And this the boys did, and took such good care of their sister that,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And this the boys did, and took such good care of their sister that, as she was very small, she soon forgot that she had ever had a father and mother. Who acts: boys, sister. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 32

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And this the boys did, and took such good care of their sister that, as she was very small, she soon forgot that she had ever had a father and mother.

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**Who acts:** boys, sister · **What happens:** do, take, be, forget, have, care · **To what, where:** such good care, father · **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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, sister), 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:pg3282:15:32
# text = And this the boys did, and took such good care of their sister that, as she was very small, she soon forgot that she had ever had a father and mother.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	advmod	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	ccomp	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | this boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | this boys *not said here* | such good care of others's sister |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument care=Theme that=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | sister |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **forget** | past | sister |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past · perfect | sister | a father and mother |  |  | ever |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient |
| 6 | **care** |  | others's sister |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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