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title: They then folded the skin up into a very small parcel, and the cat t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They then folded the skin up into a very small parcel, and the cat tucked it into his mane, for snakes’ skins can do all sorts of wonderful things, if you are lucky enough to have one of them. Who acts: ears, cat, skins, you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book,
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 90

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They then folded the skin up into a very small parcel, and the cat tucked it into his mane, for snakes’ skins can do all sorts of wonderful things, if you are lucky enough to have one of them.

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**Who acts:** ears, cat, skins, you · **What happens:** fold up, tuck, do, be, have, sort · **To what, where:** skin, small parcel, mane, sorts, one, wonderful things

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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 (ears, cat, skins, you), 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:pg3282:28:90
# text = They then folded the skin up into a very small parcel, and the cat tucked it into his mane, for snakes’ skins can do all sorts of wonderful things, if you are lucky enough to have one of them.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	folded	fold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	parcel	parcel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	tucked	tuck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mane	mane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
38	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
41	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fold up** | past | ears *= ear* | the skin |  |  | then | into a small parcel *result* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent skin=Patient into parcel=Result |
| 2 | **tuck** | past | the cat | skin |  | snake's mane |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into mane=Destination |
| 3 | **do** | can | snakes's skins | all sorts of wonderful things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | enough, lucky *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | one of ears |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | wonderful things |  |  |  |  | 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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