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title: “Pivi,” she said, “how did you get out of the living tomb into which… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Pivi,” she said, “how did you get out of the living tomb into which Kabo sent you?” Who acts: Pivi, you, 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 153

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“Pivi,” she said, “how did you get out of the living tomb into which Kabo sent you?”

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**Who acts:** Pivi, you, Kabo · **What happens:** say, get out, send · **To what, where:** living tomb, you · **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 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pivi, you, 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:pg3282:19:153
# text = “Pivi,” she said, “how did you get out of the living tomb into which Kabo sent you?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
20	Kabo	Kabo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Pivi |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get out** *in a quote* | past · do-support | you | the living tomb |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **send** *in a quote* | past | Kabo |  | you | the living tomb |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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