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title: “Oh, I come from a place where they don’t keep these things by the d… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, I come from a place where they don’t keep these things by the dozen,” he replied, sitting down in front of the table. Who acts: lid, rolls. 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 95

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“Oh, I come from a place where they don’t keep these things by the dozen,” he replied, sitting down in front of the table.

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**Who acts:** lid, rolls · **What happens:** come, not keep, reply, sit down · **To what, where:** place, things, front · **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 (lid, rolls), 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:pg3282:9:95
# text = “Oh, I come from a place where they don’t keep these things by the dozen,” he replied, sitting down in front of the table.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	advcl	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | lid |  |  | a place |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from place=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **keep** *in a quote* | present · do-support | rolls *= roll* | this things |  |  |  | by the dozen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme by dozen=Location |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | lid |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sit down** | gerund | lid *not said here* |  |  | front of the table |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |

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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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