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title: This delighted the rest of the party, and they all began to arrange… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This delighted the rest of the party, and they all began to arrange their fishing lines, made from the bark of the yellow mimosa, and to search for bait for their hooks. Who acts: This, roots. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 82

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This delighted the rest of the party, and they all began to arrange their fishing lines, made from the bark of the yellow mimosa, and to search for bait for their hooks.

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**Who acts:** This, roots · **What happens:** delight, begin, arrange, make, search · **To what, where:** rest, fishing lines, bark

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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 (This, roots), 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:pg3282:8:82
# text = This delighted the rest of the party, and they all began to arrange their fishing lines, made from the bark of the yellow mimosa, and to search for bait for their hooks.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	delighted	delight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
12	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	arrange	arrange	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	mimosa	mimosa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	bait	bait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	hooks	hook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **delight** | past | This | the rest of the party |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus rest=Experiencer |
| 2 | **begin** | past | roots *= root* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **arrange** | to-infinitive | roots *= root* *not said here* | roots's fishing lines |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Product |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | roots's fishing lines *not said here* |  | the bark of the yellow mimosa |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from bark=Material |
| 5 | **search** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for bait; for roots's hooks | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for bait=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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