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title: The fair maiden was the daughter of the king of the country, and she… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The fair maiden was the daughter of the king of the country, and she often wandered in the forest with her play fellows gathering the wild flowers and fruits, till the midday heat drove the merry band to the shady lawn by the brook to rest, or to bathe in the cool waters. Who acts: fair maiden, rave
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 8

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The fair maiden was the daughter of the king of the country, and she often wandered in the forest with her play fellows gathering the wild flowers and fruits, till the midday heat drove the merry band to the shady lawn by the brook to rest, or to bathe in the cool waters.

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**Who acts:** fair maiden, raven, play fellows, midday heat · **What happens:** be, wander, gather, drive, rest, bathe · **To what, where:** daughter, forest, wild flowers, merry band, shady lawn

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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 (fair maiden, raven, play fellows, midday heat), 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:pg3282:31:8
# text = The fair maiden was the daughter of the king of the country, and she often wandered in the forest with her play fellows gathering the wild flowers and fruits, till the midday heat drove the merry band to the shady lawn by the brook to rest, or to bathe in the cool waters.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
25	gathering	gather	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	shady	shady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	conj	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the fair maiden | the daughter |  |  |  | of the king of the country | tree rules |
| 2 | **wander** | past | raven |  |  | the forest |  | with raven's play fellows; often *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Trajectory |
| 3 | **gather** | gerund | raven's play fellows *not said here* | the wild flowers and fruits |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme |
| 4 | **drive** | past | the midday heat | the merry band |  | the shady lawn |  | by the brook | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent band=Theme to lawn=Destination by brook=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **rest** | to-infinitive | the midday heat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **bathe** | to-infinitive | the midday heat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the cool waters | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in water=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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