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title: And his wife, though for the moment angry at being beaten, soon thou… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And his wife, though for the moment angry at being beaten, soon thought that a rat son-in-law was what she had always desired. Who acts: wife, rat son. 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 80

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And his wife, though for the moment angry at being beaten, soon thought that a rat son-in-law was what she had always desired.

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**Who acts:** wife, rat son · **What happens:** beat, think, be, desire · **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 (wife, rat son), 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:pg3282:17:80
# text = And his wife, though for the moment angry at being beaten, soon thought that a rat son-in-law was what she had always desired.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
5	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
9	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
14	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	ccomp	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	29	advmod	_	_
29	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | gerund · passive | father's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V» |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | father's wife |  |  |  | moment | soon *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | rat son in law |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **desire** | past · perfect | wife |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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