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title: And she made him take off his coat, and stand up in front of her, an… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 78

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And she made him take off his coat, and stand up in front of her, and once more she patted an pinned and fixed and joined, and was very careful in smoothing out every wrinkle.

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**Who acts:** sewing, man · **What happens:** make, take off, stand up, pat, pin, fix · **To what, where:** man, coat, front, an, wrinkle

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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 (sewing, man), 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:pg3282:29:78
# text = And she made him take off his coat, and stand up in front of her, and once more she patted an pinned and fixed and joined, and was very careful in smoothing out every wrinkle.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	patted	pat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	obj	_	_
24	pinned	pin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	very	very	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
34	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	smoothing	smooth	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	wrinkle	wrinkle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | sewing | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take off** | infinitive | man *not said here* | man's coat |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme |
| 3 | **stand up** | infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  | front of sewing |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |
| 4 | **pat** | past | sewing | an |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a=Experiencer |
| 5 | **pin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **fix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **join** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **smooth out** | gerund |  | every wrinkle |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wrinkle=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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