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title: She said it, and she mean it; yet, when he had turned his back, she… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She said it, and she mean it; yet, when he had turned his back, she felt more forsaken than before. Who acts: princess, lot, more. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 93

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She said it, and she mean it; yet, when he had turned his back, she felt more forsaken than before.

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**Who acts:** princess, lot, more · **What happens:** say, mean, turn, feel, forsake · **To what, where:** monster, back, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, lot, more), 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:pg3282:37:93
# text = She said it, and she mean it; yet, when he had turned his back, she felt more forsaken than before.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	obj	_	_
22	forsaken	forsake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	before	before	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | princess | monster |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | infinitive | princess | monster |  |  | yet |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **turn** | past · perfect | lot | lot's back |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme |
| 4 | **feel** | past | princess | more |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **forsake** | participle | more *not said here* |  |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |

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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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