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title: She was delighted with the beautiful deer, and cried to her nurse: “… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was delighted with the beautiful deer, and cried to her nurse: “Catch it! if you will I will give you this necklace, every pearl of which is worth a kingdom.” Who acts: girl, nurse. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 47

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She was delighted with the beautiful deer, and cried to her nurse: “Catch it! if you will I will give you this necklace, every pearl of which is worth a kingdom.”

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**Who acts:** girl, nurse · **What happens:** be, cry, catch, give · **To what, where:** nurse, heart, necklace · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, nurse), 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:pg3282:3:47
# text = She was delighted with the beautiful deer, and cried to her nurse: “Catch it! if you will I will give you this necklace, every pearl of which is worth a kingdom.”
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	necklace	necklace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obl	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | with the beautiful deer; delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  |  | girl's nurse |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to nurse=Recipient |
| 3 | **catch** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | heart |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | girl's nurse *= nurse* | this necklace | girl's nurse *= nurse* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient necklace=Theme |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | of every pearl; worth *property* | tree rules |

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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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