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title: The tiny, tumble-down cottage was rebuilt, the girls had new dresses… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The tiny, tumble-down cottage was rebuilt, the girls had new dresses, and their mother ceased selling veils. Who acts: girls, mother. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 12

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The tiny, tumble-down cottage was rebuilt, the girls had new dresses, and their mother ceased selling veils.

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**Who acts:** girls, mother · **What happens:** rebuild, have, cease, sell · **To what, where:** tiny down cottage, new dresses, veils

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, mother), 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:pg3282:22:12
# text = The tiny, tumble-down cottage was rebuilt, the girls had new dresses, and their mother ceased selling veils.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	tumble	tumble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	down	down	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	rebuilt	rebuild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	xcomp	_	_
22	veils	veil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rebuild** | past · passive |  | the tiny down cottage |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **have** | past | the girls | new dresses |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Patient |
| 3 | **cease** | past | girls's mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **sell** | gerund | girls's mother *not said here* | veils |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=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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