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title: But that was what Browny enjoyed, and he was as happy as possible, r… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But that was what Browny enjoyed, and he was as happy as possible, rolling about all day and making himself in such a mess. Who acts: that, Browny. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Little Pigs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 35

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But that was what Browny enjoyed, and he was as happy as possible, rolling about all day and making himself in such a mess.

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**Who acts:** that, Browny · **What happens:** be, enjoy, roll, make · **To what, where:** fox, mess

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Little Pigs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Browny), 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:pg7277:13:35
# text = But that was what Browny enjoyed, and he was as happy as possible, rolling about all day and making himself in such a mess.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj	_	_
5	Browny	Browny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	26	det:predet	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enjoy** | past | Browny |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **roll** | gerund |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | gerund |  | fox |  | such mess |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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