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title: And so it has been; and if you look at the eyes of an asp you will s… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And so it has been; and if you look at the eyes of an asp you will see that they are all burnt; and though thousands and thousands of years have gone by since the fox was going about playing tricks upon everybody he met, the asp still bears the traces of the day when the sly creature cooked the salm
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 97

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And so it has been; and if you look at the eyes of an asp you will see that they are all burnt; and though thousands and thousands of years have gone by since the fox was going about playing tricks upon everybody he met, the asp still bears the traces of the day when the sly creature cooked the salmon.

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**Who acts:** eye, you, sticks, thousands, fox, sly creature · **What happens:** be, see, go, play, meet, cook · **To what, where:** eyes, asp, tricks, salmon · **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 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye, you, sticks, thousands), 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:pg3282:27:97
# text = And so it has been; and if you look at the eyes of an asp you will see that they are all burnt; and though thousands and thousands of years have gone by since the fox was going about playing tricks upon everybody he met, the asp still bears the traces of the day when the sly creature cooked the salmon.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	asp	asp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
27	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
28	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
35	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
36	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
41	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
42	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	_
43	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
44	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	42	obl	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	asp	asp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
51	still	still	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	traces	trace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
58	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	62	advmod	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	sly	sly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
62	cooked	cook	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | eye |  |  | the eyes of a asp |  | look *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | future | you | a asp *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer asp=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | sticks *= stick* |  |  |  |  | all, burnt *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | present · perfect | thousands of years and thousands |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | past · progressive | the fox | the asp |  |  |  | bears *obl* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trace=Theme |
| 6 | **play** | gerund | the fox *not said here* | tricks |  |  |  | upon everybody | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme |
| 7 | **meet** | past | fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **cook** | past | the sly creature | the salmon |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent salmon=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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