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title: Then he got down to secure more firmly the cloths that kept his good… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he got down to secure more firmly the cloths that kept his goods dry, and going to the end of the long row, discovered that the sledge containing the fish and the fox was missing. Who acts: snow, cloths, sledge. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26,
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 60

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Then he got down to secure more firmly the cloths that kept his goods dry, and going to the end of the long row, discovered that the sledge containing the fish and the fox was missing.

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**Who acts:** snow, cloths, sledge · **What happens:** get down, secure, keep, go, discover, contain · **To what, where:** cloths, goods, end, fish

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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 (snow, cloths, sledge), 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:pg3282:26:60
# text = Then he got down to secure more firmly the cloths that kept his goods dry, and going to the end of the long row, discovered that the sledge containing the fish and the fox was missing.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	secure	secure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cloths	cloth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	obj	_	_
15	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
18	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
27	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
31	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get down** | past | snow |  |  |  | then | down *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **secure** | to-infinitive | snow *not said here* | the cloths |  |  |  | firmly *property* | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition cloth=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | past | the cloths | snow's goods |  |  |  | dry *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  |  | to the end of the long row |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **discover** | past | snow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **contain** | gerund | the sledge *not said here* | the fish and the fox |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fish=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past | the sledge |  |  |  |  | missing *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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