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title: His upper lip, arched like an eyebrow, curved upwards to his nostril… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His upper lip, arched like an eyebrow, curved upwards to his nostrils and his lower hung down like a camel’s. 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 126

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His upper lip, arched like an eyebrow, curved upwards to his nostrils and his lower hung down like a camel’s.

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**What happens:** arch, curve, hang down · **To what, where:** upper lip

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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: 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:pg3282:2:126
# text = His upper lip, arched like an eyebrow, curved upwards to his nostrils and his lower hung down like a camel’s.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	arched	arch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	eyebrow	eyebrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	curved	curve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	upwards	upwards	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	lower	low	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arch** | participle · passive |  | tee's upper lip |  |  |  | like a eyebrow | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **curve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | upwards *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |
| 3 | **hang down** | past |  |  |  |  |  | like a camel; low *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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