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title: And he and his wife were so busy calling Ingibjorg all sorts of name… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And he and his wife were so busy calling Ingibjorg all sorts of names for her bad behaviour, that they never noticed Kisa stealing into a dark corner, and upsetting a whole bag of salt into the great pot before the fire. Who acts: giant, sorts, Kisa. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew La
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 37

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And he and his wife were so busy calling Ingibjorg all sorts of names for her bad behaviour, that they never noticed Kisa stealing into a dark corner, and upsetting a whole bag of salt into the great pot before the fire.

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**Who acts:** giant, sorts, Kisa · **What happens:** be, call, not notice, steal, upset, sort · **To what, where:** Ingibjorg, Kisa, dark corner, whole bag, great pot, names · **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 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, sorts, Kisa), 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:pg3282:28:37
# text = And he and his wife were so busy calling Ingibjorg all sorts of names for her bad behaviour, that they never noticed Kisa stealing into a dark corner, and upsetting a whole bag of salt into the great pot before the fire.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
10	Ingibjorg	Ingibjorg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	Kisa	Kisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	upsetting	upset	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
42	before	before	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | giant |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | giant *not said here* | Ingibjorg |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent ingibjorg=Theme sort=Result |
| 3 | **not** **notice** | past | sorts *= sort* | Kisa |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **steal** | gerund | Kisa *not said here* |  |  | a dark corner |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **upset** | gerund | Kisa *not said here* | a whole bag of salt |  | the great pot | before the fire |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bag=Experiencer |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | names for Kisa's bad behaviour |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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