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title: And as she spoke, she pulled up one of the poles of the hut, and Bal… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And as she spoke, she pulled up one of the poles of the hut, and Ball-Carrier saw that underneath was a deep, deep hole, which seemed to have no bottom. Who acts: grandmother, Ball, deep deep hole. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 61

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And as she spoke, she pulled up one of the poles of the hut, and Ball-Carrier saw that underneath was a deep, deep hole, which seemed to have no bottom.

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**Who acts:** grandmother, Ball, deep deep hole · **What happens:** speak, pull up, see, be, seem, have · **To what, where:** one, deep deep hole, bottom · **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 (grandmother, Ball, deep deep hole), 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:pg3282:8:61
# text = And as she spoke, she pulled up one of the poles of the hut, and Ball-Carrier saw that underneath was a deep, deep hole, which seemed to have no bottom.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	Ball	Ball	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
23	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
36	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | grandmother |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pull up** | past | grandmother | one of the poles of the hut |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | Ball and Carrier |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | a deep deep hole |  |  |  | underneath *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **seem** | past | a deep deep hole |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **have** | to-infinitive | a deep deep hole *not said here* | no bottom |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Patient |

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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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