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title: Unlike most women—who think that anything that belongs to them must… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Unlike most women—who think that anything that belongs to them must be better than what belongs to anyone else—each thought her husband the more foolish of the two. Who acts: anything, each. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 55

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Unlike most women—who think that anything that belongs to them must be better than what belongs to anyone else—each thought her husband the more foolish of the two.

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**Who acts:** anything, each · **What happens:** think, belong, be · **To what, where:** women, husband · **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 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anything, each), 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:pg3282:29:55
# text = Unlike most women—who think that anything that belongs to them must be better than what belongs to anyone else—each thought her husband the more foolish of the two.
1	Unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
8	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	ccomp	_	_
16	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
18	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obl	_	_
21	else	else	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nsubj	_	_
24	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
29	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	ccomp	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present |  |  |  |  |  | unlike most women | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **belong** | present |  |  | women *= woman* |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | must | anything |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **belong** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to anyone | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | each | two's husband |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot husband=Theme |

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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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