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title: “With her beauty and talents she had a right to look for someone a l… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “With her beauty and talents she had a right to look for someone a little better than THAT.” Who acts: mother. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 40

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“With her beauty and talents she had a right to look for someone a little better than THAT.”

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** have, look · **To what, where:** right

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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:pg3282:17:40
# text = “With her beauty and talents she had a right to look for someone a little better than THAT.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	talents	talent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	THAT	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | mother | a right |  |  |  | with mother's beauty and talents | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 2 | **look** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | a right *not said here* |  |  |  | for someone | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for someone=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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