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title: “Your sister has sent you this letter,” he said, and added quickly:… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Your sister has sent you this letter,” he said, and added quickly: “O mother! can you tell me anything of the Sister of the Sun?” Who acts: sister, door, you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 53

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“Your sister has sent you this letter,” he said, and added quickly: “O mother! can you tell me anything of the Sister of the Sun?”

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**Who acts:** sister, door, you · **What happens:** send, say, add, tell · **To what, where:** letter, you, anything, door · **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 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, door, you), 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:pg3282:24:53
# text = “Your sister has sent you this letter,” he said, and added quickly: “O mother! can you tell me anything of the Sister of the Sun?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
20	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Your sister | this letter | you |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination letter=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | door |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can | you | anything | door |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient anything=Topic |

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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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