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title: Among the women he remarked two young girls, more beautiful and bett… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the women he remarked two young girls, more beautiful and better dressed than any of the rest, carrying between them two great baskets full of provisions. Who acts: folk. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 28

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Among the women he remarked two young girls, more beautiful and better dressed than any of the rest, carrying between them two great baskets full of provisions.

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**Who acts:** folk · **What happens:** remark, dress, carry · **To what, where:** two young girls, two great baskets

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folk), 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:pg3282:20:28
# text = Among the women he remarked two young girls, more beautiful and better dressed than any of the rest, carrying between them two great baskets full of provisions.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	remarked	remark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
22	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	baskets	basket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
27	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remark** *speech: assert* | past | folk | two young girls |  |  |  | among the women | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent girl=Topic |
| 2 | **dress** | participle | folk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than any; well *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | folk *not said here* | two great baskets |  |  |  | between women *= woman* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=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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