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title: But though she was very good-natured, she was not very clever, and s… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But though she was very good-natured, she was not very clever, and she got some of the bits wrong. Who acts: great many. 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 clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 99

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But though she was very good-natured, she was not very clever, and she got some of the bits wrong.

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**Who acts:** great many · **What happens:** be, not be, get · **To what, where:** some

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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 (great many), 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:pg3282:16:99
# text = But though she was very good-natured, she was not very clever, and she got some of the bits wrong.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	natured	natured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | great many *= many* |  |  |  |  | natured *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | great many *= many* |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | past | great many *= many* | some |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus |

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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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