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title: Then you will come to a column on which is a marble slab inscribed w… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then you will come to a column on which is a marble slab inscribed with Cufic characters. Who acts: you, column. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 110

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Then you will come to a column on which is a marble slab inscribed with Cufic characters.

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**Who acts:** you, column · **What happens:** come, be, inscribe · **To what, where:** column, marble slab

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, column), 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:pg3282:2:110
# text = Then you will come to a column on which is a marble slab inscribed with Cufic characters.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	column	column	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	marble	marble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	slab	slab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	inscribed	inscribe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Cufic	Cufic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | future | you |  |  | a column | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to column=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | a column |  |  | a marble slab |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **inscribe** | participle |  | a marble slab *not said here* |  |  |  | with Cufic characters | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with character=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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