--- title: “Oh, certainly,” said Ball-Carrier; and I don’t think we shall find… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Oh, certainly,” said Ball-Carrier; and I don’t think we shall find a flatter course than the prairie itself—no one knows how many miles it stretches. Who acts: Ball, I, we, one. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ball, I, we, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3282:7:87 # text = “Oh, certainly,” said Ball-Carrier; and I don’t think we shall find a flatter course than the prairie itself—no one knows how many miles it stretches. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Ball Ball PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Carrier Carrier PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 15 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 17 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 flatter flat ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 amod _ _ 22 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 than than ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 prairie prairie NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 26 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 25 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 27 — - PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 29 det _ _ 29 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 31 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 32 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 stretches stretch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ball and Carrier | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | present · do-support | I | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **find** | shall | we | a flatter course | | | | than the prairie prairie | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Topic | | 4 | **know** | present | no one | many miles | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mile=Stimulus | | 5 | **stretch** | present | course | many miles *not said here* | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mile=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/7/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/7/88/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/7/)