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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 71

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The woman smiled and was silent, and after spinning busily for an hour more, she got up from her stoop, and began to weave as fast as she could.

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**Who acts:** woman, wool · **What happens:** smile, be, spin, get up, begin, weave · **To what, where:** stoop

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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 (woman, wool), 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:pg3282:29:71
# text = The woman smiled and was silent, and after spinning busily for an hour more, she got up from her stoop, and began to weave as fast as she could.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
9	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
11	busily	busily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	stoop	stoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	weave	weave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smile** | past | the woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **spin** | gerund | wool *not said here* |  |  |  | hour | busily *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **get up** | past | wool |  |  | wool's stoop |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from stoop=Destination |
| 5 | **begin** | past | the woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **weave** | to-infinitive | the woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **stoop** |  | wool |  |  |  |  |  | nom stoop «act intransitive»: poss=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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