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title: When the nurse went to fix the cord she saw tears falling from its e… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the nurse went to fix the cord she saw tears falling from its eyes, and that it was dejected and sorrowful “O Lady Jamila! this is a wonderful deer, it is crying; I never saw a deer cry before.” Who acts: nurse, girl, tears, this. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown F
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 58

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When the nurse went to fix the cord she saw tears falling from its eyes, and that it was dejected and sorrowful “O Lady Jamila! this is a wonderful deer, it is crying; I never saw a deer cry before.”

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**Who acts:** nurse, girl, tears, this, cord, kerchief · **What happens:** go, fix, see, fall, deject, be · **To what, where:** cord, tears, eyes, wonderful deer, deer cry

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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 (nurse, girl, tears, this), 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:pg3282:3:58
# text = When the nurse went to fix the cord she saw tears falling from its eyes, and that it was dejected and sorrowful “O Lady Jamila! this is a wonderful deer, it is crying; I never saw a deer cry before.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	dejected	deject	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	27	case	_	_
26	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Jamila	Jamila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
29	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	before	before	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the nurse |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fix** | to-infinitive | the nurse *not said here* | the cord |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cord=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past | girl | tears |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tear=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fall** | gerund | tears *not said here* |  |  | cord's eyes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from eye=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **deject** | past · passive |  | cord |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | a wonderful deer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | present · progressive | cord |  |  |  |  | of Lady Jamila | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | past | the kerchief *= kerchief* | a deer cry |  |  |  | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus |

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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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