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title: The golden hen was given to him at once, and, more than that, the Si… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The golden hen was given to him at once, and, more than that, the Sister of the Sun told him that, in a little time, when he was a few years older, she would herself pay a visit to his home and become his wife. Who acts: Sister, giant. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown F
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 71

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The golden hen was given to him at once, and, more than that, the Sister of the Sun told him that, in a little time, when he was a few years older, she would herself pay a visit to his home and become his wife.

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**Who acts:** Sister, giant · **What happens:** give, tell, be, pay, become · **To what, where:** golden hen, giant, that, visit, wife · **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 (Sister, giant), 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:pg3282:23:71
# text = The golden hen was given to him at once, and, more than that, the Sister of the Sun told him that, in a little time, when he was a few years older, she would herself pay a visit to his home and become his wife.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Sister	Sister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	42	nsubj	_	_
42	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive |  | the golden hen | giant |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient at once=Asset |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Sister of the Sun | that | giant |  | time |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | giant |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pay** | would | Sister | a visit |  |  |  | to giant's home | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset |
| 5 | **become** | infinitive | Sister *not said here* | giant's wife |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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