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title: She did not forget to touch the rest of the roots with her magic wan… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She did not forget to touch the rest of the roots with her magic wand, and soon had all her maidens about her, and even, as she had two tiny radishes to spare, her favourite cat, and her little dog whose name was Beni. Who acts: princess, little dog, Beni. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by And
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 51

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She did not forget to touch the rest of the roots with her magic wand, and soon had all her maidens about her, and even, as she had two tiny radishes to spare, her favourite cat, and her little dog whose name was Beni.

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**Who acts:** princess, little dog, Beni · **What happens:** not forget, touch, have, spare, be, name · **To what, where:** rest, maidens, two tiny radishes, favourite cat, Beni

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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, little dog, Beni), 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:pg3282:31:51
# text = She did not forget to touch the rest of the roots with her magic wand, and soon had all her maidens about her, and even, as she had two tiny radishes to spare, her favourite cat, and her little dog whose name was Beni.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
32	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
33	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	radishes	radish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
43	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
44	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
46	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
49	Beni	Beni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **forget** | past · do-support | princess |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **touch** | to-infinitive | princess *not said here* | the rest of the roots with princess's magic wand |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rest=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past |  | princess's maidens |  |  |  | about princess; soon *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | past | princess | two tiny radishes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent radish=Patient |
| 5 | **spare** | to-infinitive | princess *not said here* | princess's favourite cat |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent cat=Asset |
| 6 | **is a** | past | princess's little dog | Beni |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **name** |  | Beni |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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