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title: So saying he gave her a large piece of the most beautiful brocade, a… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So saying he gave her a large piece of the most beautiful brocade, all woven over with gold threads, and embroidered with pearls and other jewels. Who acts: Ring. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 58

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So saying he gave her a large piece of the most beautiful brocade, all woven over with gold threads, and embroidered with pearls and other jewels.

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**Who acts:** Ring · **What happens:** say, give, weave over, embroider · **To what, where:** large piece, Signy · **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 (Ring), 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:pg3282:30:58
# text = So saying he gave her a large piece of the most beautiful brocade, all woven over with gold threads, and embroidered with pearls and other jewels.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	brocade	brocade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
16	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Ring *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past | Ring | a large piece of the beautiful brocade and all woven gold threads | Signy |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient piece=Theme |
| 3 | **weave over** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **embroider** | participle | Ring *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with pearls and other jewels | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=Theme |

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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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