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title: Down they went on their knees and gathered up everything they could… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Down they went on their knees and gathered up everything they could lay hands on. Who acts: innkeeper, everything. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 49

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Down they went on their knees and gathered up everything they could lay hands on.

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**Who acts:** innkeeper, everything · **What happens:** go, gather up, lay · **To what, where:** knees, hands

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (innkeeper, everything), 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:pg3282:9:49
# text = Down they went on their knees and gathered up everything they could lay hands on.
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | innkeeper |  |  | innkeeper's knees |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location |
| 2 | **gather up** | past | innkeeper *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lay** | could | everything | hands |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Result |

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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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