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title: It did not take her long to reach the bridge which led to the city,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It did not take her long to reach the bridge which led to the city, and she took up her position on the spot where she had first seen the head, and called loudly “Ali! Who acts: It, bridge, garden. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependenc
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 56

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It did not take her long to reach the bridge which led to the city, and she took up her position on the spot where she had first seen the head, and called loudly “Ali!

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**Who acts:** It, bridge, garden · **What happens:** not take, reach, lead, take up, see, call · **To what, where:** bridge, position, spot, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (It, bridge, garden), 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:pg3282:22:56
# text = It did not take her long to reach the bridge which led to the city, and she took up her position on the spot where she had first seen the head, and called loudly “Ali!
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	advmod	_	_
30	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
36	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take** | past · do-support | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reach** | to-infinitive |  | the bridge |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bridge=Theme |
| 3 | **lead** | past | the bridge |  |  |  |  | to the city | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to city=Patient |
| 4 | **take up** | past | garden | garden's position |  | the spot |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent position=Theme on spot=Destination |
| 5 | **see** | past · perfect | garden | the head |  |  |  | first *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus |
| 6 | **call** | past | garden *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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