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title: Isn’t this solitary life in such a desert bad enough without your tu… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Isn’t this solitary life in such a desert bad enough without your turning the castle into a hospital for the aged? Who acts: your. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 60

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Isn’t this solitary life in such a desert bad enough without your turning the castle into a hospital for the aged?

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**Who acts:** your · **What happens:** not be, turn, age · **To what, where:** solitary life, desert, castle, hospital

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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 (your), 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:pg3282:31:60
# text = Isn’t this solitary life in such a desert bad enough without your turning the castle into a hospital for the aged?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	aged	age	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present |  | this solitary life |  | such desert |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | gerund | your | the castle |  | a hospital |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent castle=Theme into hospital=Trajectory |
| 3 | **age** | participle | your *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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