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title: As usual, her attendants let her do anything she pleased, and sittin… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As usual, her attendants let her do anything she pleased, and sitting down on a mossy bank where a little stream tinkled by, soon fell sound asleep. Who acts: attendants, princess. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 15

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As usual, her attendants let her do anything she pleased, and sitting down on a mossy bank where a little stream tinkled by, soon fell sound asleep.

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**Who acts:** attendants, princess · **What happens:** let, do, sit down, tinkle, fall, sound · **To what, where:** princess, anything, mossy bank, little stream

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attendants, princess), 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:pg3282:28:15
# text = As usual, her attendants let her do anything she pleased, and sitting down on a mossy bank where a little stream tinkled by, soon fell sound asleep.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	mossy	mossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	nmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
24	tinkled	tinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
28	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
29	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
30	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | princess's attendants | princess |  |  |  | as usual | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive | princess *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sit down** | gerund | princess's attendants *not said here* |  |  | a mossy bank |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location |
| 4 | **tinkle** | participle |  | a little stream *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fall** | past | princess's attendants *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **sound** | infinitive | princess's attendants *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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