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title: Then, with ill words, twelve negroes dragged in a lovely woman, fett… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, with ill words, twelve negroes dragged in a lovely woman, fettered on hands and feet and meanly dressed, and they set her down on the bare floor. Who acts: hands. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 25

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Then, with ill words, twelve negroes dragged in a lovely woman, fettered on hands and feet and meanly dressed, and they set her down on the bare floor.

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**Who acts:** hands · **What happens:** drag, fetter, dress, set down · **To what, where:** twelve negroes, woman, bare floor

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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 (hands), 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:pg3282:5:25
# text = Then, with ill words, twelve negroes dragged in a lovely woman, fettered on hands and feet and meanly dressed, and they set her down on the bare floor.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	negroes	negro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
9	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	fettered	fetter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	meanly	meanly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	down	down	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag** | participle |  | twelve negroes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fetter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | on hands and feet | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on hand=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **dress** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | meanly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **set down** | past | hands *= hand* | woman |  | the bare floor |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on floor=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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