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title: As for the mouse, the Lapp threw a half-burnt stick after him, and t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As for the mouse, the Lapp threw a half-burnt stick after him, and though it was not enough to hurt him, his beautiful white skin was smeared all over with it, and all the washing in the world would not make him clean again. Who acts: Lapp, ermine, washing, man. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 57

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As for the mouse, the Lapp threw a half-burnt stick after him, and though it was not enough to hurt him, his beautiful white skin was smeared all over with it, and all the washing in the world would not make him clean again.

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**Who acts:** Lapp, ermine, washing, man · **What happens:** throw, burnt, not be, hurt, smear, not make · **To what, where:** burnt stick, man, beautiful white skin

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lapp, ermine, washing, man), 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:pg3282:27:57
# text = As for the mouse, the Lapp threw a half-burnt stick after him, and though it was not enough to hurt him, his beautiful white skin was smeared all over with it, and all the washing in the world would not make him clean again.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Lapp	Lapp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	smeared	smear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
33	all	all	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	over	over	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
39	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	41	det:predet	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
50	again	again	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | the Lapp | a burnt stick |  |  | after man | as the mouse | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 2 | **burnt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | ermine |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hurt** | to-infinitive | ermine *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |
| 5 | **smear** | past · passive |  | man's beautiful white skin |  |  |  | with ermine; over *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with it=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **make** | would | all washing in the world | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **clean** | infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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