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title: He was indeed greatly minded to make friends with this being called… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was indeed greatly minded to make friends with this being called “man,” so, taking the form of an old field labourer, he entered the service of a farmer. Who acts: householder. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 101

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He was indeed greatly minded to make friends with this being called “man,” so, taking the form of an old field labourer, he entered the service of a farmer.

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**Who acts:** householder · **What happens:** be, make, call, take, enter, form · **To what, where:** friends, this, form, service, old field labourer, farmer · **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 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (householder), 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:pg3282:30:101
# text = He was indeed greatly minded to make friends with this being called “man,” so, taking the form of an old field labourer, he entered the service of a farmer.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	minded	minded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	labourer	labourer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | householder |  |  |  |  | greatly, indeed, minded *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | householder *not said here* | friends |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product |
| 3 | **call** | gerund · passive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **take** | gerund | householder *not said here* | the form of a old field labourer |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 5 | **enter** | past | householder | the service of a farmer |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination |
| 6 | **form** |  |  | a old field labourer |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **service** |  |  | a farmer |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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