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title: And because they were self-willed and conceited, and would not liste… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And because they were self-willed and conceited, and would not listen to good advice, they and their children have been the servants of men to this very day. Who acts: weddings. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 62

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And because they were self-willed and conceited, and would not listen to good advice, they and their children have been the servants of men to this very day.

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**Who acts:** weddings · **What happens:** will, conceit, not listen, be · **To what, where:** weddings, servants

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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 (weddings), 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:pg3282:21:62
# text = And because they were self-willed and conceited, and would not listen to good advice, they and their children have been the servants of men to this very day.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
5	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	willed	will	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	conceited	conceit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **will** | past · passive |  | weddings *= wedding* |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **conceit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **listen** | would |  |  |  |  | day | to good advice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to advice=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present · perfect | weddings *= wedding* | the servants |  |  |  | of men | tree rules |

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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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