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title: But at length curiosity prevailed, and she and her companions explor… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But at length curiosity prevailed, and she and her companions explored to their heart’s content, and tasted and examined everything, running hither and thither in high glee, and calling merrily to each other. Who acts: princess. 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 31, sentence 16

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But at length curiosity prevailed, and she and her companions explored to their heart’s content, and tasted and examined everything, running hither and thither in high glee, and calling merrily to each other.

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**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** prevail, explore, taste, examine, run, call · **To what, where:** length curiosity, everything, high glee, each · **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 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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:pg3282:31:16
# text = But at length curiosity prevailed, and she and her companions explored to their heart’s content, and tasted and examined everything, running hither and thither in high glee, and calling merrily to each other.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	explored	explore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	examined	examine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
26	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	glee	glee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
35	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	34	obl	_	_
38	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevail** | past |  |  |  | length curiosity |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at curiosity=Location |
| 2 | **explore** | past | princess |  |  |  |  | to companions's heart's content | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **taste** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **examine** | past |  | everything |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 5 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  | high glee |  | hither *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in glee=Trajectory |
| 6 | **call** | gerund |  |  | each |  |  | merrily *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |

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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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