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title: Everything was as the wise old man had said it would be, and the pri… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything was as the wise old man had said it would be, and the prince, who was skilled in all tongues, read the following Cufic inscription: “O travellers! be it known to you that this column has been set up with its tablet to give true directions about these roads. Who acts: column. A sentence of
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 114

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Everything was as the wise old man had said it would be, and the prince, who was skilled in all tongues, read the following Cufic inscription: “O travellers! be it known to you that this column has been set up with its tablet to give true directions about these roads.

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**Who acts:** column · **What happens:** say, be, skill, read, follow, know · **To what, where:** Everything, prince, tongues, Cufic inscription, column, 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg3282:2:114
# text = Everything was as the wise old man had said it would be, and the prince, who was skilled in all tongues, read the following Cufic inscription: “O travellers! be it known to you that this column has been set up with its tablet to give true directions about these roads.
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	skilled	skill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	case	_	_
28	Cufic	cufic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	inscription	inscription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	33	case	_	_
33	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux:pass	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
41	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
42	column	column	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	parataxis	_	_
46	up	up	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	advcl	_	_
52	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obj	_	_
54	about	about	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	56	det	_	_
56	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past · perfect · passive |  | Everything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | would | column |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **skill** | past · passive |  | the prince |  | all tongues |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **read** | infinitive |  | the Cufic inscription |  |  |  | of travellers | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inscription=Topic |
| 5 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **know** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive |  | column | you |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 7 | **set up** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | this column |  |  |  | with column's tablet | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with tablet=Instrument |
| 8 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | true directions |  |  |  | about this roads | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=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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