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title: Of course you must not suppose that all the fathers and mothers who… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course you must not suppose that all the fathers and mothers who had lost children made no attempts to find them, but the forest was so large, and the witch was so cunning in knowing exactly where they were going to search, that it was very easy for her to keep out of the way. Who acts: you, fath
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 86

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Of course you must not suppose that all the fathers and mothers who had lost children made no attempts to find them, but the forest was so large, and the witch was so cunning in knowing exactly where they were going to search, that it was very easy for her to keep out of the way.

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**Who acts:** you, fathers, forest, witch, children · **What happens:** not suppose, have, lose, make, find, be · **To what, where:** lost children, attempts, children, way

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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 (you, fathers, forest, witch), 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:pg3282:6:86
# text = Of course you must not suppose that all the fathers and mothers who had lost children made no attempts to find them, but the forest was so large, and the witch was so cunning in knowing exactly where they were going to search, that it was very easy for her to keep out of the way.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	6	advmod	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	attempts	attempt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	cunning	cunning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
37	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
39	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	43	advmod	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	conj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	expl	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
50	very	very	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	advcl	_	_
52	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
53	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	csubj	_	_
56	out	out	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **suppose** | must | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | all fathers and mothers | lost children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 3 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | past | all fathers and mothers | no attempts |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Product |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | all fathers and mothers *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 6 | **is** | past | the forest |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | the witch |  |  |  |  | cunning *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **know** | gerund | the witch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **go** | past · progressive | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 10 | **search** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **is** | past | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 12 | **keep out** | to-infinitive | witch | the way |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |

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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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