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title: But long after she was dead, and her children too, the villagers wou… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But long after she was dead, and her children too, the villagers would tell the tale of her imprisonment underground, as they sat carving wood in the winter nights. Who acts: princess, villagers, imprisonment. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, with i
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 65

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But long after she was dead, and her children too, the villagers would tell the tale of her imprisonment underground, as they sat carving wood in the winter nights.

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**Who acts:** princess, villagers, imprisonment · **What happens:** be, tell, sit, carve, imprison · **To what, where:** tale, wood · **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 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, villagers, imprisonment), 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:pg3282:32:65
# text = But long after she was dead, and her children too, the villagers would tell the tale of her imprisonment underground, as they sat carving wood in the winter nights.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	villagers	villager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
27	carving	carve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
28	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | princess |  |  |  |  | princess's children *obl*; dead, long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | would | the villagers | the tale of princess's imprisonment |  |  |  | underground *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
| 3 | **sit** | past | villagers *= villager* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **carve** | gerund | villagers *= villager* *not said here* | wood |  |  | night |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** |  | princess's imprisonment |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **imprison** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom imprisonment «act 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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