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title: “Reach up to the stars is MY motto,” cried the lady one day, when sh… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Reach up to the stars is MY motto,” cried the lady one day, when she was in a greater passion than usual. Who acts: stars, lady. 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 44

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“Reach up to the stars is MY motto,” cried the lady one day, when she was in a greater passion than usual.

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**Who acts:** stars, lady · **What happens:** reach up, be, cry · **To what, where:** greater passion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (stars, lady), 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:pg3282:17:44
# text = “Reach up to the stars is MY motto,” cried the lady one day, when she was in a greater passion than usual.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	MY	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	motto	motto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
12	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | stars |  |  |  |  | to MY motto | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the lady  one day and a greater passion |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | lady |  |  | a greater passion |  | than usual | tree rules |

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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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