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title: Then the Bad One knew what had happened, and after telling the water… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Bad One knew what had happened, and after telling the water demons that there would be no feast after all, he called to Ball-Carrier, who was eating an apple. Who acts: Bad One, feast, Ball. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependen
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 62

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Then the Bad One knew what had happened, and after telling the water demons that there would be no feast after all, he called to Ball-Carrier, who was eating an apple.

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**Who acts:** Bad One, feast, Ball · **What happens:** know, happen, tell, call, eat · **To what, where:** water demons, Ball, apple · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Bad One, feast, Ball), 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:pg3282:7:62
# text = Then the Bad One knew what had happened, and after telling the water demons that there would be no feast after all, he called to Ball-Carrier, who was eating an apple.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	One	One	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
22	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Ball	Ball	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	acl:relcl	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | the Bad One |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | feast *not said here* |  | the water demons |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent demon=Recipient |
| 4 | **call** | past | feast |  | Ball and Carrier |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ball=Recipient |
| 5 | **eat** | past · progressive | Ball and Carrier | a apple |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=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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