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title: So the next morning, the two rats, having spent hours in making them… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the next morning, the two rats, having spent hours in making themselves smart, set out to see the sun, leading their daughter between them. Who acts: two rats. 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 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 49

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So the next morning, the two rats, having spent hours in making themselves smart, set out to see the sun, leading their daughter between them.

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**Who acts:** two rats · **What happens:** have, spend, make, set out, see, lead · **To what, where:** views, next morning, sun, daughter

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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 (two rats), 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:pg3282:17:49
# text = So the next morning, the two rats, having spent hours in making themselves smart, set out to see the sun, leading their daughter between them.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	between	between	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | the two rats *not said here* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | the two rats *not said here* | views *= view* |  |  |  | smart *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product |
| 4 | **set out** | participle · passive |  | the next morning and the two rats |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | the sun |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus |
| 6 | **lead** | gerund |  | views's daughter |  |  |  | between views *= view* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme between they=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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