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title: She took Pivi into a shed where she kept her fruit laid him on a bed… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She took Pivi into a shed where she kept her fruit laid him on a bed of mats, and made him as comfortable as she could, and attended to his broken leg without cutting off the flesh round the bone, as these people usually do. Who acts: woman, fruit, people. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by And
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 58

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She took Pivi into a shed where she kept her fruit laid him on a bed of mats, and made him as comfortable as she could, and attended to his broken leg without cutting off the flesh round the bone, as these people usually do.

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**Who acts:** woman, fruit, people · **What happens:** take, keep, lay, make, attend, break · **To what, where:** Pivi, shed, Kabo, bed, flesh

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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 (woman, fruit, people), 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:pg3282:19:58
# text = She took Pivi into a shed where she kept her fruit laid him on a bed of mats, and made him as comfortable as she could, and attended to his broken leg without cutting off the flesh round the bone, as these people usually do.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shed	shed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	mats	mat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	attended	attend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
37	off	off	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	round	round	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
45	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	46	det	_	_
46	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
47	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | woman |  | Pivi |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument pivi=Destination |
| 2 | **keep** | past | woman |  |  | a shed |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lay** | past | woman's fruit | Kabo |  | a bed of mats |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on bed=Destination |
| 4 | **make** | past | woman *not said here* | Kabo |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
| 5 | **attend** | past | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Kabo's broken leg | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to leg=Theme |
| 6 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **cut off** | gerund | woman *not said here* | the flesh |  |  |  | round the bone | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector flesh=Eventuality |
| 8 | **do** | present | this people |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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