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title: Some plan must be invented, and she wished to lock herself in where… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Some plan must be invented, and she wished to lock herself in where no one could interrupt her, as might easily happen in the garden. Who acts: shame, one. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 161

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Some plan must be invented, and she wished to lock herself in where no one could interrupt her, as might easily happen in the garden.

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**Who acts:** shame, one · **What happens:** invent, wish, lock, interrupt, happen · **To what, where:** plan, shame, garden

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shame, one), 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:pg3282:33:161
# text = Some plan must be invented, and she wished to lock herself in where no one could interrupt her, as might easily happen in the garden.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	lock	lock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	interrupt	interrupt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invent** | must · passive |  | some plan |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **wish** | past | shame |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **lock** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | shame *not said here* | shame |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 4 | **interrupt** | could | no one | shame |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **happen** | might | no one *not said here* |  |  | the garden |  | easily *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in garden=Location |

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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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