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title: “That is because it is so fine,” answered she; “you do not want it t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “That is because it is so fine,” answered she; “you do not want it to be as thick as the rough clothes you wear every day.” Who acts: That, you, wrinkle. 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 clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 80

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“That is because it is so fine,” answered she; “you do not want it to be as thick as the rough clothes you wear every day.”

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**Who acts:** That, you, wrinkle · **What happens:** be, answer, not want, wear · **To what, where:** last, wrinkle, rough clothes · **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 (That, you, wrinkle), 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:pg3282:29:80
# text = “That is because it is so fine,” answered she; “you do not want it to be as thick as the rough clothes you wear every day.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	expl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	23	obl	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | last |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **want** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | wrinkle |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | wrinkle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the rough clothes; thick *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wear** *in a quote* | present | you | the rough clothes *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source |

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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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