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title: After great search I discovered a well in a place so secret that nei… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After great search I discovered a well in a place so secret that neither bird nor beast nor man could find it without labour. Who acts: I, bird. 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 37

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After great search I discovered a well in a place so secret that neither bird nor beast nor man could find it without labour.

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**Who acts:** I, bird · **What happens:** discover, find · **To what, where:** well, place

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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 (I, bird), 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:pg3282:5:37
# text = After great search I discovered a well in a place so secret that neither bird nor beast nor man could find it without labour.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
14	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc	_	_
17	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	19	cc	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	without	without	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | past | I | a well |  | a place | after great search | secret *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent well=Topic |
| 2 | **find** | could | neither bird nor beast nor man | well |  |  |  | without labour | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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