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title: The broom missed the bird, but knocked down and broke the vase on th… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The broom missed the bird, but knocked down and broke the vase on the bracket, which did not soothe the angry woman. Who acts: broom, bracket. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 57

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The broom missed the bird, but knocked down and broke the vase on the bracket, which did not soothe the angry woman.

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**Who acts:** broom, bracket · **What happens:** miss, knock down, break, not soothe · **To what, where:** bird, vase, bracket, angry woman

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (broom, bracket), 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:pg5615:36:57
# text = The broom missed the bird, but knocked down and broke the vase on the bracket, which did not soothe the angry woman.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bracket	bracket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	soothe	soothe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | past | the broom | the bird |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus |
| 2 | **knock down** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **break** | past |  | the vase |  | the bracket |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vase=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **soothe** | past · do-support | the bracket | the angry woman |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus woman=Experiencer |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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