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title: The gnome, however, set off above ground as speedily as possible, an… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The gnome, however, set off above ground as speedily as possible, and disguising himself as a farmer, bought an ass in the nearest market-town, and brought it back loaded with sacks of turnip, carrot, and radish seed. Who acts: gnome, ass. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bro
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 79

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The gnome, however, set off above ground as speedily as possible, and disguising himself as a farmer, bought an ass in the nearest market-town, and brought it back loaded with sacks of turnip, carrot, and radish seed.

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**Who acts:** gnome, ass · **What happens:** set off, disguise, buy, bring, load · **To what, where:** ground, gnome, ass, nearest market town

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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 (gnome, ass), 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:pg3282:31:79
# text = The gnome, however, set off above ground as speedily as possible, and disguising himself as a farmer, bought an ass in the nearest market-town, and brought it back loaded with sacks of turnip, carrot, and radish seed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gnome	gnome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	above	above	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	disguising	disguise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
22	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
28	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	back	back	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	loaded	load	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	turnip	turnip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	carrot	carrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	radish	radish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set off** | infinitive | the gnome | ground |  |  |  | however, speedily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **disguise** | gerund |  | gnome |  |  |  | as a farmer | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Destination |
| 3 | **buy** | past |  | a ass |  | the nearest market town |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **load** | past | ass |  |  |  |  | with sacks of turnip and carrot | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sack=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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