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title: In he went, and there he found two pretty, laughing, teasing girls. — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In he went, and there he found two pretty, laughing, teasing girls. Who acts: sun. 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 93

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In he went, and there he found two pretty, laughing, teasing girls.

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**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** go, find, laugh, tease · **To what, where:** girls

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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 (sun), 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:pg3282:19:93
# text = In he went, and there he found two pretty, laughing, teasing girls.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	conj	_	_
15	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | sun |  |  | there |  | pretty *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **laugh** | gerund | sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tease** | gerund | sun *not said here* | girls |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |

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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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