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title: “‘Not far from this place,’ they said, ‘a cow comes up from the grea… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “‘Not far from this place,’ they said, ‘a cow comes up from the great sea to graze; a little of her dung would cure us. Who acts: schemes, cow, dung. 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 47

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“‘Not far from this place,’ they said, ‘a cow comes up from the great sea to graze; a little of her dung would cure us.

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**Who acts:** schemes, cow, dung · **What happens:** say, come up, graze, cure · **To what, where:** little, great sea, us · **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 (schemes, cow, dung), 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:pg3282:5:47
# text = “‘Not far from this place,’ they said, ‘a cow comes up from the great sea to graze; a little of her dung would cure us.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	graze	graze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	_
27	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	dung	dung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | schemes *= scheme* | a little |  |  |  | far *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come up** *in a quote* | present | a cow |  |  | the great sea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **graze** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a cow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cure** *in a quote* | would | cow's dung | us |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer we=Source |

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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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