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title: The bricklayer asked her no more questions, but took down a broom an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The bricklayer asked her no more questions, but took down a broom and gave her such a beating that her pride was humbled a little. Who acts: bricklayer, Zizi. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 191

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The bricklayer asked her no more questions, but took down a broom and gave her such a beating that her pride was humbled a little.

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**Who acts:** bricklayer, Zizi · **What happens:** ask, take down, give, humble, pride · **To what, where:** more questions, Zizi, broom, beating, pride

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bricklayer, Zizi), 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:pg540:40:191
# text = The bricklayer asked her no more questions, but took down a broom and gave her such a beating that her pride was humbled a little.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bricklayer	bricklayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	no	no	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	19	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	beating	beating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	humbled	humble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the bricklayer | more questions | Zizi |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take down** | past |  | a broom |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent broom=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past |  | such beating | Zizi |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient beating=Theme |
| 4 | **humble** | past · passive |  | Zizi's pride |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **pride** |  | Zizi |  |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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