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title: But his sister did not keep quiet for long, and tore and pulled at t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But his sister did not keep quiet for long, and tore and pulled at the rich brocade as if she wanted to destroy it, stamping about and shouting angrily. Who acts: sister. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 65

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But his sister did not keep quiet for long, and tore and pulled at the rich brocade as if she wanted to destroy it, stamping about and shouting angrily.

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**Who acts:** sister · **What happens:** not keep, pull, want, destroy, stamp, shout · **To what, where:** tore, chest

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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 (sister), 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:pg3282:30:65
# text = But his sister did not keep quiet for long, and tore and pulled at the rich brocade as if she wanted to destroy it, stamping about and shouting angrily.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tore	tore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	brocade	brocade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	stamping	stamp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
28	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
31	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **keep** | past · do-support | set's sister | tore |  |  |  | for long; quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pull** | past | set's sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the rich brocade | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at brocade=Theme |
| 3 | **want** | past | sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **destroy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | sister *not said here* | chest |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **stamp** | gerund | sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  | angrily *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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