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title: Very soon the fat which was to make the sauce rose to the surface, a… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Very soon the fat which was to make the sauce rose to the surface, and Ball-Carrier, who was bobbing about from one side to the other, called out that Lung-Woman had better taste the broth, as he though that some salt should be added to it. Who acts: fat, Ball, Lung Woman. A sentence of «The Brown F
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 56

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Very soon the fat which was to make the sauce rose to the surface, and Ball-Carrier, who was bobbing about from one side to the other, called out that Lung-Woman had better taste the broth, as he though that some salt should be added to it.

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**Who acts:** fat, Ball, Lung Woman · **What happens:** be, rise, bob, call out, have, add · **To what, where:** surface, other, one side, better taste, salt, fat

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fat, Ball, Lung Woman), 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:pg3282:7:56
# text = Very soon the fat which was to make the sauce rose to the surface, and Ball-Carrier, who was bobbing about from one side to the other, called out that Lung-Woman had better taste the broth, as he though that some salt should be added to it.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sauce	sauce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	Ball	Ball	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	bobbing	bob	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	Lung	Lung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
39	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	amod	_	_
40	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	broth	broth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
44	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	44	conj	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
48	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	49	det	_	_
49	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
51	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	aux:pass	_	_
52	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the fat |  |  |  |  | make *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | past | the fat |  |  | the surface |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bob** | past · progressive | Ball and Carrier |  | the other | one side |  | about *property* | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient |
| 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | Ball and Carrier *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | past | Lung Woman | better taste |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **add** *speech: assert* | should · passive |  | some salt | fat |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to it=Co-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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