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title: Now there were so many sledges that the Lapp did not notice for a lo… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now there were so many sledges that the Lapp did not notice for a long while that one was missing; indeed, he would have entered the town without knowing if snow had not suddenly begun to fall. Who acts: many sledges, Lapp, one. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Bo
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 59

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Now there were so many sledges that the Lapp did not notice for a long while that one was missing; indeed, he would have entered the town without knowing if snow had not suddenly begun to fall.

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**Who acts:** many sledges, Lapp, one · **What happens:** be, not notice, enter, know, not begin, not fall · **To what, where:** many sledges, town, snow

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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 (many sledges, Lapp, one), 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:pg3282:26:59
# text = Now there were so many sledges that the Lapp did not notice for a long while that one was missing; indeed, he would have entered the town without knowing if snow had not suddenly begun to fall.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sledges	sledge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Lapp	Lapp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux	_	_
27	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	ccomp	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | many sledges |  |  | there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **notice** | past · do-support | the Lapp | many sledges |  |  |  | for a long | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | that one |  |  |  |  | indeed, missing *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **enter** | would · perfect | Lapp | the town |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Destination |
| 5 | **know** | gerund | Lapp *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **not** **begin** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | snow |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **fall** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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