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title: Just as the body was being placed in the ground the other woman’s hu… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Just as the body was being placed in the ground the other woman’s husband came running up, dressed, as far as anyone could see, in no clothes at all. Who acts: husband, anyone. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 10

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Just as the body was being placed in the ground the other woman’s husband came running up, dressed, as far as anyone could see, in no clothes at all.

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**Who acts:** husband, anyone · **What happens:** place, come, run up, dress, see · **To what, where:** body, ground, clothes

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, anyone), 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:pg3282:30:10
# text = Just as the body was being placed in the ground the other woman’s husband came running up, dressed, as far as anyone could see, in no clothes at all.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	27	obl	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past · passive |  | the body |  | the ground |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in ground=Destination |
| 2 | **come** | past | the other woman's husband |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **run up** | gerund | the other woman's husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **dress** | participle | the other woman's husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **see** | could | anyone |  |  | no clothes at all |  | far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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