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title: ‘Yes, I will brush you with pleasure,’ said the girl, and set to wor… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Yes, I will brush you with pleasure,’ said the girl, and set to work with the tangled hair, and, as may be easily imagined, this too was by no means pleasant work. Who acts: I, girl, no. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 13

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‘Yes, I will brush you with pleasure,’ said the girl, and set to work with the tangled hair, and, as may be easily imagined, this too was by no means pleasant work.

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**Who acts:** I, girl, no · **What happens:** brush, say, set, work, imagine, be · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, girl, no), 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:pg540:47:13
# text = ‘Yes, I will brush you with pleasure,’ said the girl, and set to work with the tangled hair, and, as may be easily imagined, this too was by no means pleasant work.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	brush	brush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	tangled	tangled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
30	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
33	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
34	too	too	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	38	nsubj	_	_
38	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
39	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brush** | future | I | you |  |  |  | with pleasure | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent you=Initial\_Location this=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **set** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with the tangled hair | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hair=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **imagine** | may · passive |  |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF» |
| 6 | **is** | past | no |  |  |  |  | mean *property* | tree rules |

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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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