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title: When he had finished every scrap she spoke as before: “Tell me, my g… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had finished every scrap she spoke as before: “Tell me, my grandson, have not the good spirits visited you all these many days that you have fasted?” Who acts: boy, grandson, good spirits, you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, with its depend
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 113

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When he had finished every scrap she spoke as before: “Tell me, my grandson, have not the good spirits visited you all these many days that you have fasted?”

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**Who acts:** boy, grandson, good spirits, you · **What happens:** finish, speak, tell, have, not visit, fast · **To what, where:** scrap, grandson, you, many days · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, grandson, good spirits, you), 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:pg3282:6:113
# text = When he had finished every scrap she spoke as before: “Tell me, my grandson, have not the good spirits visited you all these many days that you have fasted?”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	scrap	scrap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	before	before	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	grandson	grandson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
27	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obj	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	fasted	fast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | boy | every scrap |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector scrap=Eventuality |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | grandson |  |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my grandson | grandson |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **visit** *in a quote* | past | the good spirits | you |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **fast** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | all many days |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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