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title: One morning the girl, who had had no supper and no breakfast, wander… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One morning the girl, who had had no supper and no breakfast, wandered off to look for cranberries, and though she was quite near home was astonished at noticing a large hut, which certainly had not been there when last she had come that way. Who acts: girl, large hut. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 4

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One morning the girl, who had had no supper and no breakfast, wandered off to look for cranberries, and though she was quite near home was astonished at noticing a large hut, which certainly had not been there when last she had come that way.

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**Who acts:** girl, large hut · **What happens:** have, wander off, look, be, notice, not be · **To what, where:** supper, home, large hut, way

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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 (girl, large hut), 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:pg3282:8:4
# text = One morning the girl, who had had no supper and no breakfast, wandered off to look for cranberries, and though she was quite near home was astonished at noticing a large hut, which certainly had not been there when last she had come that way.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	cranberries	cranberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
23	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
26	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	near	near	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
31	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
38	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
41	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	42	cop	_	_
42	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
43	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	44	advmod	_	_
44	last	last	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
48	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	49	det	_	_
49	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | the girl | no supper and no breakfast |  |  | morning |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient |
| 3 | **wander off** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for cranberries | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for cranberry=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | girl |  |  | home |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **notice** | gerund | girl *not said here* | a large hut |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus |
| 7 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | a large hut |  |  |  |  | certainly, there *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **come** | past | girl | that way |  |  |  | last *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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