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title: Far, far in the forest there were two little huts, and in each of th… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Far, far in the forest there were two little huts, and in each of them lived a man who was a famous hunter, his wife, and three or four children. Who acts: two little huts, each, man. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 80

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Far, far in the forest there were two little huts, and in each of them lived a man who was a famous hunter, his wife, and three or four children.

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**Who acts:** two little huts, each, man · **What happens:** be, live · **To what, where:** man, famous hunter

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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 little huts, each, man), 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:pg3282:6:80
# text = Far, far in the forest there were two little huts, and in each of them lived a man who was a famous hunter, his wife, and three or four children.
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	conj	_	_
34	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | two little huts |  |  | there |  | far *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | each | a man |  |  |  | three children *obl* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | a man | a famous hunter and Elias's wife |  |  |  |  | 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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