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title: But all the arguments of father and mother were wasted, for her only… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But all the arguments of father and mother were wasted, for her only answer was: “O my father! Who acts: Mibrafruz. 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 6

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But all the arguments of father and mother were wasted, for her only answer was: “O my father!

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**Who acts:** Mibrafruz · **What happens:** waste, be, argue, answer · **To what, where:** arguments, father

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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 (Mibrafruz), 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:pg3282:2:6
# text = But all the arguments of father and mother were wasted, for her only answer was: “O my father!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	arguments	argument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	wasted	waste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waste** | past · passive |  | all arguments of father and mother |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | my father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **argue** |  |  | father and mother |  |  |  |  | nom argument «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **answer** |  | Mibrafruz |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=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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