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title: The mother said she must have a little time to think over it, as her… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The mother said she must have a little time to think over it, as her daughter was still very young; so it was settled that the man should go away for a month with his friends, and then come back to see if the girl was willing. Who acts: mother, daughter, man, girl. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Boo
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 2

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The mother said she must have a little time to think over it, as her daughter was still very young; so it was settled that the man should go away for a month with his friends, and then come back to see if the girl was willing.

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**Who acts:** mother, daughter, man, girl · **What happens:** say, have, think, be, settle, go away · **To what, where:** it · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, daughter, man, girl), 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:pg3282:8:2
# text = The mother said she must have a little time to think over it, as her daughter was still very young; so it was settled that the man should go away for a month with his friends, and then come back to see if the girl was willing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
42	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
43	back	back	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
46	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
50	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | must | mother |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* |  |  | it |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | mother's daughter |  |  |  | still | young *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **settle** | past · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go away** | should | the man |  |  |  | month | with man's friends; away *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with friend=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **come back** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the girl |  |  |  |  | willing *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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