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title: At last they locked it in a cupboard in one corner of their room, an… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last they locked it in a cupboard in one corner of their room, and as there was no hole anywhere the ball could not possibly get out. Who acts: girls, ball. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 39

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At last they locked it in a cupboard in one corner of their room, and as there was no hole anywhere the ball could not possibly get out.

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**Who acts:** girls, ball · **What happens:** lock, be, not get out · **To what, where:** bedtime, last, hole

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, ball), 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:pg3282:29:39
# text = At last they locked it in a cupboard in one corner of their room, and as there was no hole anywhere the ball could not possibly get out.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	locked	lock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
22	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	parataxis	_	_
29	out	out	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock** | past | girls *= girl* | bedtime |  | last |  | in a cupboard; in one corner of girls's room | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | no hole |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **get out** | could | the ball |  |  |  |  | out, possibly *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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