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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 83

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Most of them used worms, but one, who had put a piece of raw meat for dinner into his skin wallet, cut off a little bit and baited his line with it, unseen by his companions.

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**Who acts:** Most, one · **What happens:** use, put, cut off, bait · **To what, where:** worms, piece, skin wallet, little bit, line

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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 (Most, one), 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:pg3282:8:83
# text = Most of them used worms, but one, who had put a piece of raw meat for dinner into his skin wallet, cut off a little bit and baited his line with it, unseen by his companions.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	wallet	wallet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	baited	bait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	unseen	unseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	parataxis	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | Most of roots | worms |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Patient |
| 2 | **put** | past · perfect |  | a piece of raw meat for dinner |  | party's skin wallet |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent piece=Goal |
| 3 | **cut off** | infinitive | one | a little bit |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **bait** | past | Most of roots *not said here* | party's line |  |  |  | with bit | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent line=Destination with it=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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