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title: And as he entered he added: “Here is a letter from your sister and—c… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And as he entered he added: “Here is a letter from your sister and—can you tell me anything of the Sister of the Sun?” Who acts: man, 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 clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 60

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And as he entered he added: “Here is a letter from your sister and—can you tell me anything of the Sister of the Sun?”

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**Who acts:** man, you · **What happens:** enter, add, be, tell · **To what, where:** letter, anything, man · **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 (man, 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:pg3282:24:60
# text = And as he entered he added: “Here is a letter from your sister and—can you tell me anything of the Sister of the Sun?”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **add** *speech: ask* | past | man |  |  | here |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a letter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can | you | anything | man |  |  |  | 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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