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title: Her mother came to visit her whenever she was able, and one day, whe… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her mother came to visit her whenever she was able, and one day, when they were sitting talking together, they were spied out by a man who had come to cut willows to weave into baskets. Who acts: mother, Dilah, man. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 22

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Her mother came to visit her whenever she was able, and one day, when they were sitting talking together, they were spied out by a man who had come to cut willows to weave into baskets.

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**Who acts:** mother, Dilah, man · **What happens:** come, visit, be, sit, talk, spy out · **To what, where:** Dilah, willows, baskets

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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 (mother, Dilah, man), 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:pg3282:16:22
# text = Her mother came to visit her whenever she was able, and one day, when they were sitting talking together, they were spied out by a man who had come to cut willows to weave into baskets.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
7	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
20	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	spied	spy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	willows	willow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	weave	weave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	baskets	basket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | woman's mother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **visit** | to-infinitive | woman's mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | mother |  |  |  |  | able, whenever *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit** | past · progressive | Dilah |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **talk** | gerund | Dilah *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **spy out** | past · passive | a man | Dilah |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 7 | **come** | past · perfect | a man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **cut** | to-infinitive | a man *not said here* | willows |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset willow=Product |
| 9 | **weave** | to-infinitive | a man *not said here* |  |  | baskets |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into basket=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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