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title: The husband spent all his time in hunting, and the family had never… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The husband spent all his time in hunting, and the family had never had so much meat before; but the man, who had seen for himself how poor they were, noticed with amazement that they did not seem to care about it, or to be hungry. Who acts: husband, family, man, corner. A sentence of «The Brown Fai
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 10

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The husband spent all his time in hunting, and the family had never had so much meat before; but the man, who had seen for himself how poor they were, noticed with amazement that they did not seem to care about it, or to be hungry.

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**Who acts:** husband, family, man, corner · **What happens:** spend, not have, see, notice, not seem, care · **To what, where:** hunting, much meat, corner

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, family, man, corner), 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:pg3282:8:10
# text = The husband spent all his time in hunting, and the family had never had so much meat before; but the man, who had seen for himself how poor they were, noticed with amazement that they did not seem to care about it, or to be hungry.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	before	before	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obl	_	_
30	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
31	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	amazement	amazement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	about	about	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
50	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	cop	_	_
51	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past | the husband |  |  | hunting | time |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **have** | past · perfect | the family | much meat |  |  |  | before *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | the man |  |  |  |  | for man; poor *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **notice** | past · passive |  | corner |  |  |  | with amazement | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **seem** | past · do-support | corner |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **care** | to-infinitive | corner *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about family | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |

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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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