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title: They had also bestowed on him the power of changing his shape, and h… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They had also bestowed on him the power of changing his shape, and had increased the quickness of his eyes and ears so that nothing escaped him. Who acts: strength, power, nothing. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 132

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They had also bestowed on him the power of changing his shape, and had increased the quickness of his eyes and ears so that nothing escaped him.

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**Who acts:** strength, power, nothing · **What happens:** bestow, change, increase, escape · **To what, where:** power, shape, quickness, boy

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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 (strength, power, nothing), 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:pg3282:6:132
# text = They had also bestowed on him the power of changing his shape, and had increased the quickness of his eyes and ears so that nothing escaped him.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	bestowed	bestow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	changing	change	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	quickness	quickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	27	nsubj	_	_
27	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bestow** | past · perfect | strength | the power |  |  |  | on boy | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | gerund | the power *not said here* | boy's shape |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient |
| 3 | **increase** | past · perfect | strength *not said here* | the quickness of boy's eyes and ears |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer quickness=Patient |
| 4 | **escape** | past | nothing | boy |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Initial\_Location |

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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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