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title: So, one day, Kabo came and asked Pivi to sail in his canoe to a plac… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So, one day, Kabo came and asked Pivi to sail in his canoe to a place where he knew of a great big shell-fish, enough to feed on for a week. Who acts: Kabo. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 128

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So, one day, Kabo came and asked Pivi to sail in his canoe to a place where he knew of a great big shell-fish, enough to feed on for a week.

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**Who acts:** Kabo · **What happens:** come, ask, sail, know, feed on · **To what, where:** Pivi, canoe

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kabo), 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:pg3282:19:128
# text = So, one day, Kabo came and asked Pivi to sail in his canoe to a place where he knew of a great big shell-fish, enough to feed on for a week.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Kabo	Kabo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	iobj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
25	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Kabo |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Kabo *not said here* |  | Pivi |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent pivi=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sail** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Kabo *not said here* |  |  | Kabo's canoe |  | to a place | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to place=Trajectory |
| 4 | **know** | past | Kabo |  |  |  |  | of a great big shell fish | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of fish=Stimulus |
| 5 | **feed on** | to-infinitive | Kabo *not said here* |  |  |  | week |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |

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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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