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title: She answered him: ‘That person did not go to sleep quickly, and he s… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She answered him: ‘That person did not go to sleep quickly, and he stayed at home all day, so that I was not able to adorn myself. Who acts: Gul, person, I. 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 115

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She answered him: ‘That person did not go to sleep quickly, and he stayed at home all day, so that I was not able to adorn myself.

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**Who acts:** Gul, person, I · **What happens:** answer, not go, sleep, stay, not be, adorn · **To what, where:** matter, home, myself

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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 (Gul, person, I), 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:pg3282:5:115
# text = She answered him: ‘That person did not go to sleep quickly, and he stayed at home all day, so that I was not able to adorn myself.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	28	mark	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	adorn	adorn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Gul |  | matter |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **go** | past · do-support | that person |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | that person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stay** | past | person |  |  | home | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **adorn** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | myself |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme myself=Destination |

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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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