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title: Then the negro said to her: ‘How now, ugly one and shaven head! — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the negro said to her: ‘How now, ugly one and shaven head! Who acts: negro. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 113

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Then the negro said to her: ‘How now, ugly one and shaven head!

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**Who acts:** negro · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** Gul · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (negro), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3282:455`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:5:113
# text = Then the negro said to her: ‘How now, ugly one and shaven head!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	negro	negro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	parataxis	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	shaven	shaven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | the negro |  | Gul |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to her=Recipient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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