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title: For this was a noted fishing ground, and here they would live, in li… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For this was a noted fishing ground, and here they would live, in little wooden huts, till autumn and bad weather came round again. Who acts: this, songs, little wooden huts. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 3

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For this was a noted fishing ground, and here they would live, in little wooden huts, till autumn and bad weather came round again.

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**Who acts:** this, songs, little wooden huts · **What happens:** note, be, live, come round

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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 (this, songs, little wooden huts), 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:pg3282:20:3
# text = For this was a noted fishing ground, and here they would live, in little wooden huts, till autumn and bad weather came round again.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	noted	note	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	till	till	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
26	round	round	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **note** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | for a noted fishing ground | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | would | songs *= song* |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come round** | past | little wooden huts and autumn and bad weather |  |  |  | again | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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