--- title: Asmund, who was extremely fond of his sister, readily consented, and… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Asmund, who was extremely fond of his sister, readily consented, and they had a very happy time together, carrying over all their pet treasures, and Signy’s jewels and other ornaments, and arranging them in the pretty little rooms inside the trees. Who acts: Asmund, jewels. A sentence of «The Brown --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/30/33/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/30/) / 33 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 33 Asmund, who was extremely fond of his sister, readily consented, and they had a very happy time together, carrying over all their pet treasures, and Signy’s jewels and other ornaments, and arranging them in the pretty little rooms inside the trees. **Who acts:** Asmund, jewels · **What happens:** be, consent, have, carry, arrange, treasure · **To what, where:** pet treasures, Asmund, pretty little rooms 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 (Asmund, jewels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3282:30:33 # text = Asmund, who was extremely fond of his sister, readily consented, and they had a very happy time together, carrying over all their pet treasures, and Signy’s jewels and other ornaments, and arranging them in the pretty little rooms inside the trees. 1 Asmund Asmund PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 extremely extremely ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 fond fond ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 readily readily ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 consented consent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 very very ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 together together ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 24 over over ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 28 det:predet _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 treasures treasure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 Signy Signy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’s 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 jewels jewel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 ornaments ornament NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 arranging arrange VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ _ 40 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 44 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 46 inside inside ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Asmund | | | | | of king's sister; Signy's jewels and other ornaments *obl*; extremely, fond *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **consent** | participle | Asmund *not said here* | | | | | readily *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | past | Asmund | | | | time | together *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **carry** | gerund | Asmund *not said here* | | | Asmund's pet treasures | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **arrange** | gerund | Signy's jewels and other ornaments *not said here* | Asmund | | the pretty little rooms inside the trees | | | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in room=Destination | | 6 | **treasure** | | Asmund | | | | | | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/30/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/30/34/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/30/)