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title: Her attendants dressed him in it, and brought him again before the t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her attendants dressed him in it, and brought him again before the tender-hearted lady. Who acts: attendants. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 77

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Her attendants dressed him in it, and brought him again before the tender-hearted lady.

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**Who acts:** attendants · **What happens:** dress, bring · **To what, where:** Venus, wallet

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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 (attendants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3282:235`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:3:77
# text = Her attendants dressed him in it, and brought him again before the tender-hearted lady.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|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	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	compound	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past | spite's attendants | Venus |  | wallet |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **bring** | past | spite's attendants *not said here* | Venus |  |  | before the hearted lady; again |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme before lady=Destination |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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