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title: 1 (return) [Translated from two Persian MSS. in the possession of th… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 1 (return) [Translated from two Persian MSS. in the possession of the British Museum and the India Office, and adapted, with some reservations, by Annette S. Beveridge.] Who acts: two Persian MSS. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 67

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1 (return) \[Translated from two Persian MSS. in the possession of the British Museum and the India Office, and adapted, with some reservations, by Annette S. Beveridge.\]

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**Who acts:** two Persian MSS · **What happens:** translate, adapt, possess · **To what, where:** 1, British Museum

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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 (two Persian MSS), 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:pg3282:6:67
# text = 1 (return) [Translated from two Persian MSS. in the possession of the British Museum and the India Office, and adapted, with some reservations, by Annette S. Beveridge.]
1	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	MSS	MSS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	British	British	PROPN	NNP	_	18	compound	_	_
18	Museum	Museum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Office	Office	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	adapted	adapt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	reservations	reservation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	Annette	Annette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	S.	S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
34	Beveridge	Beveridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate** | participle · passive | two Persian MSS | 1 |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **adapt** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with some reservations | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **possess** |  |  | the British Museum and the India Office |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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