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title: This pleased the old woman so much that she brought him another basi… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This pleased the old woman so much that she brought him another basin of food, and while he was eating it she talked to him, and this is what she said: “Far away, on the other side of the great river, is the home of the Bad One. Who acts: This, grandmother, boy. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 123

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This pleased the old woman so much that she brought him another basin of food, and while he was eating it she talked to him, and this is what she said: “Far away, on the other side of the great river, is the home of the Bad One.

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**Who acts:** This, grandmother, boy · **What happens:** woman, bring, eat, talk, be, say · **To what, where:** basin, boy, pleased old woman, other side, home · **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 (This, grandmother, boy), 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:pg3282:6:123
# text = This pleased the old woman so much that she brought him another basin of food, and while he was eating it she talked to him, and this is what she said: “Far away, on the other side of the great river, is the home of the Bad One.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	parataxis	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	parataxis	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
35	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
37	away	away	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
48	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	One	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	50	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **woman** |  | This |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | past | grandmother | another basin of food | boy |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination basin=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | past · progressive | boy | basin |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **talk** | past | grandmother |  | boy |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | this | the pleased old woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | grandmother |  |  | the other side of the great river |  | away *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the home |  |  |  | of the Bad One | 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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