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title: In their hurry they had, however, forgotten two things: a bundle of… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In their hurry they had, however, forgotten two things: a bundle of keys which lay on the table, and the girl whom the pin had pricked, and who now stood pale and helpless beside the wood stack. Who acts: people, keys. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 37

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In their hurry they had, however, forgotten two things: a bundle of keys which lay on the table, and the girl whom the pin had pricked, and who now stood pale and helpless beside the wood stack.

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**Who acts:** people, keys · **What happens:** have, forget, lay, prick, stand, hurry · **To what, where:** hurry, two things, table, girl, wood stack

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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 (people, keys), 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:pg3282:20:37
# text = In their hurry they had, however, forgotten two things: a bundle of keys which lay on the table, and the girl whom the pin had pricked, and who now stood pale and helpless beside the wood stack.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	pricked	prick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
35	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
36	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	_
39	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	stack	stack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | people | people's hurry *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurry=Patient |
| 2 | **forget** | participle |  | two things |  | people's hurry |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lay** | present | keys |  |  | the table |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on table=Destination |
| 4 | **prick** | past · perfect · passive |  | the girl |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **stand** | past |  |  |  | the wood stack | now | pale *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside stack=Location |
| 6 | **hurry** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom hurry «state 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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