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title: She would neither eat nor drink, nor take any notice of all the beau… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She would neither eat nor drink, nor take any notice of all the beautiful dresses her parents bought for her. Who acts: Kisa, beautiful, parents. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 54

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She would neither eat nor drink, nor take any notice of all the beautiful dresses her parents bought for her.

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**Who acts:** Kisa, beautiful, parents · **What happens:** eat, drink, take, dress, buy · **To what, where:** notice

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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 (Kisa, beautiful, parents), 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:pg3282:28:54
# text = She would neither eat nor drink, nor take any notice of all the beautiful dresses her parents bought for her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc	_	_
6	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	9	cc	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	_
16	dresses	dress	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | would | Kisa |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drink** | infinitive | Kisa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | Kisa *not said here* | any notice |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 4 | **dress** | present | the beautiful |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **buy** | past | Kisa's parents |  |  |  |  | for Kisa | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for she=Beneficiary |

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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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