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title: “Cousin,” he whispered very low, “there is someone coming who will t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Cousin,” he whispered very low, “there is someone coming who will take the knapsack away from me. Who acts: Cousin, someone. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 7

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“Cousin,” he whispered very low, “there is someone coming who will take the knapsack away from me.

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**Who acts:** Cousin, someone · **What happens:** whisper, be, come, take · **To what, where:** knapsack · **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 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cousin, someone), 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:pg3282:23:7
# text = “Cousin,” he whispered very low, “there is someone coming who will take the knapsack away from me.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
14	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | Cousin |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | someone |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | future |  | the knapsack |  |  |  | away *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knapsack=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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