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title: “Kiss me,” said the Sister of the Sun; and the youth obeyed her, but… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Kiss me,” said the Sister of the Sun; and the youth obeyed her, but still without looking up. Who acts: Sister, youth. 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 88

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“Kiss me,” said the Sister of the Sun; and the youth obeyed her, but still without looking up.

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**Who acts:** Sister, youth · **What happens:** kiss, say, obey, look up · **To what, where:** Sister · **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, youth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3282:2108`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:23:88
# text = “Kiss me,” said the Sister of the Sun; and the youth obeyed her, but still without looking up.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	obeyed	obey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the Sister of the Sun *= sister* |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Sister of the Sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **obey** | past | the youth | Sister |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **look up** | gerund | the youth *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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