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title: “Where have you come from, with that fine red cock in your basket,”… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Where have you come from, with that fine red cock in your basket,” asked she, for the bird was so big that the lid would not shut down properly. Who acts: wife, bird, lid. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 94

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“Where have you come from, with that fine red cock in your basket,” asked she, for the bird was so big that the lid would not shut down properly.

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**Who acts:** wife, bird, lid · **What happens:** come, ask, be, not shut down · **To what, where:** wife · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, bird, lid), 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:pg3282:9:94
# text = “Where have you come from, with that fine red cock in your basket,” asked she, for the bird was so big that the lid would not shut down properly.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	advmod	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
10	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
18	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
33	down	down	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **come** *in a quote* | present | wife |  |  |  |  | with fine red cock in your basket | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | wife |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | the bird |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **shut down** | would | the lid |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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