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title: “I tore my coat this morning,” he began, when he had found her sitti… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I tore my coat this morning,” he began, when he had found her sitting at the door of her house eating an apple. Who acts: useless creature, mouse, blow, house. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 106

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“I tore my coat this morning,” he began, when he had found her sitting at the door of her house eating an apple.

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**Who acts:** useless creature, mouse, blow, house · **What happens:** tore, begin, find, sit, eat · **To what, where:** coat, blow, door, apple

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (useless creature, mouse, blow, house), 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:pg3282:16:106
# text = “I tore my coat this morning,” he began, when he had found her sitting at the door of her house eating an apple.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tore** *in a quote* | past | what useless creature *= creature* | my coat |  |  | morning |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past | mouse |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **find** | past · perfect | mouse | blow |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** | gerund | blow *not said here* |  |  | the door of blow's house |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location |
| 5 | **eat** | gerund | blow's house *not said here* | a apple |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=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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