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title: And the wall, rather hurt in his feelings, declared that he had no c… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the wall, rather hurt in his feelings, declared that he had no claim to be the husband of so beautiful a girl. Who acts: wall. 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 75

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And the wall, rather hurt in his feelings, declared that he had no claim to be the husband of so beautiful a girl.

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**Who acts:** wall · **What happens:** hurt, declare, have, be · **To what, where:** wall, feelings, claim, husband · **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), 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:pg3282:17:75
# text = And the wall, rather hurt in his feelings, declared that he had no claim to be the husband of so beautiful a girl.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | participle |  | the wall *not said here* |  | wall's feelings |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the wall |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | wall | no claim |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the husband |  |  |  | of a beautiful girl | 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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