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title: Now I want that bridge and some of the gold for myself, and that is… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now I want that bridge and some of the gold for myself, and that is the reason that I have stolen so many boys by means of my ball. Who acts: I, that, reason. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 125

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Now I want that bridge and some of the gold for myself, and that is the reason that I have stolen so many boys by means of my ball.

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**Who acts:** I, that, reason · **What happens:** want, be, steal, mean · **To what, where:** bridge, reason

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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 (I, that, reason), 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:pg3282:6:125
# text = Now I want that bridge and some of the gold for myself, and that is the reason that I have stolen so many boys by means of my ball.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	_
27	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | I | that bridge and the gold |  |  | now | for myself | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bridge=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | the reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **steal** | present · perfect · passive |  | the reason |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary boy=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present | the reason |  |  |  |  | of my ball | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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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