--- title: Then the woman fetched from her kitchen a basket, so like the magic… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the woman fetched from her kitchen a basket, so like the magic one that no one, without looking very closely, could tell the difference, and placed it in Father Grumbler’s hand, while she hid the other carefully away. Who acts: woman, one. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3282:9:55 # text = Then the woman fetched from her kitchen a basket, so like the magic one that no one, without looking very closely, could tell the difference, and placed it in Father Grumbler’s hand, while she hid the other carefully away. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 fetched fetch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 obj _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 without without SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 closely closely ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 25 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl:relcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ _ 35 Grumbler Grumbler PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ’s 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 37 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 while while SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 obj _ _ 44 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 away away ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fetch** | past | the woman | a basket | | woman's kitchen | then | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent basket=Theme from kitchen=Source | | 2 | **look** | gerund | no one *not said here* | | | | | closely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | no one | the magic one | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient difference=Topic | | 4 | **place** | past | the woman *not said here* | basket | | Father's hand | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Destination | | 5 | **hide** | past | woman | the other | | | | away *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/9/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/9/56/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/9/)