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title: But Masilo promised that he would never let his father see her, and… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Masilo promised that he would never let his father see her, and that now she was a woman no one would try to hurt her; so Thakane’s heart melted, and she went down to the lake to consult the old woman. Who acts: Masilo, father, that, one. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 47

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But Masilo promised that he would never let his father see her, and that now she was a woman no one would try to hurt her; so Thakane’s heart melted, and she went down to the lake to consult the old woman.

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**Who acts:** Masilo, father, that, one, heart, Thakane · **What happens:** promise, not let, see, be, try, hurt · **To what, where:** father, Thakane, woman, old woman

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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 (Masilo, father, that, one), 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:pg3282:16:47
# text = But Masilo promised that he would never let his father see her, and that now she was a woman no one would try to hurt her; so Thakane’s heart melted, and she went down to the lake to consult the old woman.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	Thakane	Thakane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’s	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	melted	melt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	down	down	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	consult	consult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Masilo |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **let** | would | Masilo | Masilo's father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | Masilo's father *not said here* | Thakane |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | past | that | a woman |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **try** | would | no one | a woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hurt** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | Thakane |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient |
| 7 | **melt** | past | Thakane's heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **go down** | past | Thakane |  |  |  |  | to the lake; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 9 | **consult** | to-infinitive | Thakane *not said here* | the old woman |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme |

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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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