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title: Ingibjorg, who by this time was nearly fainting from all she had gon… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ingibjorg, who by this time was nearly fainting from all she had gone through, drank greedily some milk, and then sank back on the cushions while Kisa fetched some dried herbs from a cupboard, soaked them in warm water and tied them on the bleeding legs. Who acts: Ingibjorg, all, Kisa, cupboard. A s
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 29

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Ingibjorg, who by this time was nearly fainting from all she had gone through, drank greedily some milk, and then sank back on the cushions while Kisa fetched some dried herbs from a cupboard, soaked them in warm water and tied them on the bleeding legs.

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**Who acts:** Ingibjorg, all, Kisa, cupboard · **What happens:** faint, go through, drink, sink back, fetch, soak · **To what, where:** milk, cushions, dried herbs, cupboard, herbs

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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 (Ingibjorg, all, Kisa, cupboard), 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:pg3282:28:29
# text = Ingibjorg, who by this time was nearly fainting from all she had gone through, drank greedily some milk, and then sank back on the cushions while Kisa fetched some dried herbs from a cupboard, soaked them in warm water and tied them on the bleeding legs.
1	Ingibjorg	Ingibjorg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fainting	faint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
10	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	through	through	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	greedily	greedily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	Kisa	Kisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
32	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
33	dried	dried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	soaked	soak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	acl	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
46	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **faint** | past · progressive | Ingibjorg |  |  |  | time | nearly *property* | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go through** | past · perfect | all |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drink** | past | Ingibjorg | some milk |  |  |  | greedily *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 4 | **sink back** | past |  |  |  | the cushions | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **fetch** | past | Kisa | some dried herbs |  | a cupboard |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent herb=Theme from cupboard=Source |
| 6 | **soak** | participle | a cupboard *not said here* | herbs *= herb* |  |  |  | in warm water | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination in water=Theme |
| 7 | **tie** | past | Kisa *not said here* | herbs *= herb* |  |  |  | on the bleeding legs | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient on leg=Co-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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