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title: Under his care all the crops flourished exceedingly, but the master… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Under his care all the crops flourished exceedingly, but the master proved to be wasteful and ungrateful, and Rübezahl soon left him, and went to be shepherd to his next neighbour. Who acts: crops, master, Rübezahl, householder. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Bo
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 102

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Under his care all the crops flourished exceedingly, but the master proved to be wasteful and ungrateful, and Rübezahl soon left him, and went to be shepherd to his next neighbour.

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**Who acts:** crops, master, Rübezahl, householder · **What happens:** flourish, prove, be, leave, go, care · **To what, where:** care, householder, next neighbour, shepherd

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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 (crops, master, Rübezahl, 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:pg3282:30:102
# text = Under his care all the crops flourished exceedingly, but the master proved to be wasteful and ungrateful, and Rübezahl soon left him, and went to be shepherd to his next neighbour.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	flourished	flourish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	proved	prove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	wasteful	wasteful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	Rübezahl	Rübezahl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flourish** | past | all crops |  |  | householder's care |  | exceedingly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under care=Location |
| 2 | **prove** | past | the master |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | the master *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wasteful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the master *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **leave** | past | Rübezahl | householder |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **go** | past | all crops *not said here* |  |  | householder's next neighbour |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to neighbour=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | shepherd |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **care** |  | householder |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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