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title: One day, when the boy, whom the old woman had named Nur Mahomed, was… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, when the boy, whom the old woman had named Nur Mahomed, was about seventeen years old, he was coming from his day’s work in the fields, when he saw a strange donkey eating the cabbages in the garden which surround their little cottage. Who acts: One day, baby, strange donkey, garden. A sent
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 64

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One day, when the boy, whom the old woman had named Nur Mahomed, was about seventeen years old, he was coming from his day’s work in the fields, when he saw a strange donkey eating the cabbages in the garden which surround their little cottage.

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**Who acts:** One day, baby, strange donkey, garden, day · **What happens:** name, be, come, see, eat, surround · **To what, where:** old woman, work, strange donkey, cabbages, garden, little cottage

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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 (One day, baby, strange donkey, garden), 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:pg3282:33:64
# text = One day, when the boy, whom the old woman had named Nur Mahomed, was about seventeen years old, he was coming from his day’s work in the fields, when he saw a strange donkey eating the cabbages in the garden which surround their little cottage.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
14	Nur	Nur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
15	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	xcomp	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
48	surround	surround	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
49	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
50	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | past · perfect · passive |  | the old woman |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme whom=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | past | One day |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past · progressive | baby |  |  | baby's day's work |  | in the fields | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from work=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **see** | past | baby | a strange donkey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** | gerund | a strange donkey *not said here* | the cabbages |  | the garden |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabbage=Patient |
| 6 | **surround** | present | the garden | woman's little cottage |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cottage=Co-Theme |
| 7 | **work** |  | baby's day |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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