--- title: They have a jolly shake-hands, and off he goes to the next oldest br… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They have a jolly shake-hands, and off he goes to the next oldest brother; and, to make my long story short, he has to serve the other two brothers the same as the first. Who acts: grounds, Prince. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grounds, Prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:27:44 # text = They have a jolly shake-hands, and off he goes to the next oldest brother; and, to make my long story short, he has to serve the other two brothers the same as the first. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 jolly jolly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 5 shake shake NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 off off ADP IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 oldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 amod _ _ 17 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 38 as as ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | grounds | a jolly shake hands | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 2 | **go** | present | Prince | | | | | to the next oldest brother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to brother=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | | my long story | | | | short *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset story=Product | | 4 | **have** | present | Prince | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **serve** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | the other two brothers | | | | as the first | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent brother=Duration as first=Attribute | 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. **Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/27/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/27/45/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/27/)