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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 53

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So at last she took an axe and a tiny earthen bowl, she cut a very small hole in the side of Koumongoé, and out gushed enough milk to fill the bowl.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** take, cut, gush, fill · **To what, where:** axe, small hole, side, milk, bowl

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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 (girl), 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:pg3282:15:53
# text = So at last she took an axe and a tiny earthen bowl, she cut a very small hole in the side of Koumongoé, and out gushed enough milk to fill the bowl.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	earthen	earthen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Koumongoé	Koumongoé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	out	out	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	gushed	gush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
29	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	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 | **take** | past | girl | a axe and a tiny earthen bowl |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** | past | girl | a small hole |  | the side of Koumongoé |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product |
| 3 | **gush** | participle | girl *not said here* | milk |  |  |  | out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location milk=Theme |
| 4 | **fill** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | the bowl |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient |

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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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