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title: However, by good luck, she stopped quite close to her rope bridge an… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However, by good luck, she stopped quite close to her rope bridge and was soon across it. Who acts: four. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 29

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However, by good luck, she stopped quite close to her rope bridge and was soon across it.

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**Who acts:** four · **What happens:** stop, be · **To what, where:** bridge

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four), 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:pg3282:26:29
# text = However, by good luck, she stopped quite close to her rope bridge and was soon across it.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
18	across	across	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | four |  |  |  |  | by good luck; close, however *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | four *not said here* |  |  | bridge |  | soon *property* | tree rules |

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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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