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title: “The wall is the proper husband for your daughter,” answered the win… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “The wall is the proper husband for your daughter,” answered the wind, whose home consisted of a cave, which he only visited when he was not rushing about elsewhere; “you can see for yourself that he is greater than I, for he has power to stop me in my flight.” Who acts: wall, proper husband, Husban
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 69

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“The wall is the proper husband for your daughter,” answered the wind, whose home consisted of a cave, which he only visited when he was not rushing about elsewhere; “you can see for yourself that he is greater than I, for he has power to stop me in my flight.”

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**Who acts:** wall, proper husband, Husband, you, power · **What happens:** be, answer, consist, visit, not rush, see · **To what, where:** proper husband, wind, cave, power, flight · **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 (wall, proper husband, Husband, you), 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:pg3282:17:69
# text = “The wall is the proper husband for your daughter,” answered the wind, whose home consisted of a cave, which he only visited when he was not rushing about elsewhere; “you can see for yourself that he is greater than I, for he has power to stop me in my flight.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
13	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	home	home	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	consisted	consist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
33	about	about	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
36	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obl	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
45	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	advcl	_	_
46	than	than	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
52	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	_
55	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the wall | the proper husband |  |  |  | for your daughter | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the proper husband | the wind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **consist** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of a cave; home *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **visit** | past | Husband | a cave |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **not** **rush** | past · progressive | Husband |  |  |  |  | elsewhere *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **see** *in a quote* | can | you |  |  |  |  | for yourself | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Husband |  |  |  |  | than the proper husband *= husband*; great *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Husband | power |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **stop** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | power *not said here* | the proper husband *= husband* |  | my flight |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality i=Eventuality |

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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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