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title: He then browned his face quickly, so that his own mother would not h… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He then browned his face quickly, so that his own mother would not have known him, and went into the castle, where he begged for a lodging. Who acts: Hunter. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 77

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He then browned his face quickly, so that his own mother would not have known him, and went into the castle, where he begged for a lodging.

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**Who acts:** Hunter · **What happens:** brown, not know, go, beg · **To what, where:** face, own mother, castle

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter), 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:pg640:10:77
# text = He then browned his face quickly, so that his own mother would not have known him, and went into the castle, where he begged for a lodging.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	browned	brown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	lodging	lodging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brown** | past | Hunter | Hunter's face |  |  | then | quickly *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **know** | would · perfect · passive |  | Hunter's own mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past |  |  |  | the castle |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Hunter |  |  |  |  | for a lodging | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for lodging=Topic |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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