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title: “Wife, wife,” he called loudly to the woman, who was working at a li… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Wife, wife,” he called loudly to the woman, who was working at a little distance: “Do you see Koumongoé running fast down the hill? Who acts: Koane, woman, Koumongoé. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 64

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“Wife, wife,” he called loudly to the woman, who was working at a little distance: “Do you see Koumongoé running fast down the hill?

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**Who acts:** Koane, woman, Koumongoé · **What happens:** call, work, see, run · **To what, where:** Wife, woman, Koumongoé, hill · **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 (Koane, woman, Koumongoé), 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:pg3282:15:64
# text = “Wife, wife,” he called loudly to the woman, who was working at a little distance: “Do you see Koumongoé running fast down the hill?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	acl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
26	Koumongoé	Koumongoé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	xcomp	_	_
28	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
29	down	down	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: ask* | past | Koane | Wife and wife | the woman |  |  | loudly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient |
| 2 | **work** | past · progressive | the woman |  |  |  |  | at a little distance | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at distance=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the woman *= woman* | Koumongoé |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **run** *in a quote* | gerund | Koumongoé *not said here* |  |  | the hill |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down hill=Trajectory |

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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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