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title: Before she started she restored all the men whom her sister, Latifa,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Before she started she restored all the men whom her sister, Latifa, had bewitched, to their own forms, and received their blessings, and set them forward to their homes. Who acts: marriage, sister, men. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, with its depe
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 5

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Before she started she restored all the men whom her sister, Latifa, had bewitched, to their own forms, and received their blessings, and set them forward to their homes.

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**Who acts:** marriage, sister, men · **What happens:** start, restore, bewitch, receive, set, form · **To what, where:** men, own forms, blessings

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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 (marriage, sister, men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3282:481`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:6:5
# text = Before she started she restored all the men whom her sister, Latifa, had bewitched, to their own forms, and received their blessings, and set them forward to their homes.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	restored	restore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Latifa	Latifa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	blessings	blessing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | marriage |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **restore** | past | marriage | all men | men's own forms |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Theme to form=Recipient |
| 3 | **bewitch** | past · perfect | marriage's sister | all men |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus whom=Experiencer |
| 4 | **receive** | past | marriage *not said here* | men's blessings |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme |
| 5 | **set** | past | marriage *not said here* | blessings *= blessing* |  |  |  | to men's homes; forward *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result |
| 6 | **form** |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **bless** |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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