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title: This being settled they both made ready for the race, and Ball-Carri… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This being settled they both made ready for the race, and Ball-Carrier silently begged the good spirits to help him, and not to let him fall into the hands of this wicked witch. Who acts: miles, Ball Carrier, Carrier. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7,
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 89

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This being settled they both made ready for the race, and Ball-Carrier silently begged the good spirits to help him, and not to let him fall into the hands of this wicked witch.

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**Who acts:** miles, Ball Carrier, Carrier · **What happens:** settle, make, beg, help, not let, fall · **To what, where:** This, good spirits, Carrier, hands

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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 (miles, Ball Carrier, Carrier), 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:pg3282:7:89
# text = This being settled they both made ready for the race, and Ball-Carrier silently begged the good spirits to help him, and not to let him fall into the hands of this wicked witch.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	Ball	Ball	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
36	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle** | gerund · passive |  | This |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | miles *= mile* |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Ball Carrier | the good spirits |  |  |  | silently *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent spirit=Recipient |
| 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | Ball Carrier *not said here* |  | Carrier |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **not** **let** | to-infinitive |  | Carrier |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fall** | infinitive | Carrier *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the hands of this wicked witch *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result |

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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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