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title: She thought that some naughty boy or girl was playing a trick upon h… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She thought that some naughty boy or girl was playing a trick upon her and had caught the goat on its way home and stolen all the milk. Who acts: widow, naughty boy. 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 t
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 55

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She thought that some naughty boy or girl was playing a trick upon her and had caught the goat on its way home and stolen all the milk.

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**Who acts:** widow, naughty boy · **What happens:** think, play, catch, steal · **To what, where:** trick, goat, way, milk · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (widow, naughty boy), 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:pg3282:33:55
# text = She thought that some naughty boy or girl was playing a trick upon her and had caught the goat on its way home and stolen all the milk.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
5	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	home	home	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | widow |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | past · progressive | some naughty boy or girl | a trick |  |  |  | upon widow | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** | past · perfect | widow *not said here* | the goat |  | trick's way |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme |
| 4 | **steal** | participle | widow *not said here* | all milk |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location milk=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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