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title: She took care not to be noticed as she reached the ship, and directl… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She took care not to be noticed as she reached the ship, and directly she got on board she once more changed to her former lovely appearance and told the prince that her luggage was now all on board, and that they need wait for nothing more. Who acts: Signy, luggage, prince. A sentence of «The Brown
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 50

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She took care not to be noticed as she reached the ship, and directly she got on board she once more changed to her former lovely appearance and told the prince that her luggage was now all on board, and that they need wait for nothing more.

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**Who acts:** Signy, luggage, prince · **What happens:** take, not notice, reach, get on, change, tell · **To what, where:** care, ship, board, prince, more · **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 (Signy, luggage, prince), 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:pg3282:30:50
# text = She took care not to be noticed as she reached the ship, and directly she got on board she once more changed to her former lovely appearance and told the prince that her luggage was now all on board, and that they need wait for nothing more.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	23	advmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	iobj	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	luggage	luggage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
37	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	_
38	all	all	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
46	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	46	obl	_	_
49	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Signy | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **notice** | to-infinitive · passive | Signy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **reach** | past | Signy | the ship |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ship=Theme |
| 4 | **get on** | past | Signy | board |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer board=Stimulus |
| 5 | **change** | past | Signy |  |  |  |  | to Signy's former lovely appearance *result*; once *property* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to appearance=Result |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Signy *not said here* |  | the prince |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient |
| 7 | **is** | past | Signy's luggage |  |  | board | now | all *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **need** | present | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 9 | **wait** | infinitive |  | more |  |  |  | for nothing | tree rules |

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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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