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title: All that day there was no food in the house, for the veils had not b… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All that day there was no food in the house, for the veils had not been sold, and they had no money to buy anything with. Who acts: veils. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 137

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All that day there was no food in the house, for the veils had not been sold, and they had no money to buy anything with.

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**Who acts:** veils · **What happens:** be, not sell, have, buy · **To what, where:** house, money, anything

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (veils), 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:pg3282:21:137
# text = All that day there was no food in the house, for the veils had not been sold, and they had no money to buy anything with.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	veils	veil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the house |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **sell** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | for the veils | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: for veil=Asset |
| 3 | **have** | past | veils *= veil* | no money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 4 | **buy** | to-infinitive | veils *= veil* *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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