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title: Better than all, he had two lovely gauze wings which carried him the… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Better than all, he had two lovely gauze wings which carried him the whole day without getting tired. Who acts: bee, two lovely gauze wings. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 42

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Better than all, he had two lovely gauze wings which carried him the whole day without getting tired.

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**Who acts:** bee, two lovely gauze wings · **What happens:** have, carry, get · **To what, where:** two lovely gauze wings, bee

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bee, two lovely gauze wings), 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:pg3282:18:42
# text = Better than all, he had two lovely gauze wings which carried him the whole day without getting tired.
1	Better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	gauze	gauze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
19	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | bee | two lovely gauze wings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | past | two lovely gauze wings | bee |  |  | day |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | gerund | two lovely gauze wings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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