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title: Presently up come the other brothers the same time to the minute, an… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently up come the other brothers the same time to the minute, and found him fast asleep; and they would not waken him, but said one to another, "Let us see what sort of apples he has got under his head." Who acts: you, brothers, us, Jack. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 67

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Presently up come the other brothers the same time to the minute, and found him fast asleep; and they would not waken him, but said one to another, "Let us see what sort of apples he has got under his head."

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**Who acts:** you, brothers, us, Jack · **What happens:** come, find, not waken, say, let, see · **To what, where:** other brothers, Jack, one, us, sort, apples · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, brothers, us, Jack), 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:pg14241:27:67
# text = Presently up come the other brothers the same time to the minute, and found him fast asleep; and they would not waken him, but said one to another, "Let us see what sort of apples he has got under his head."
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	waken	waken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
35	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	38	det	_	_
38	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	40	acl:relcl	_	_
44	under	under	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* | the other brothers |  |  | time | presently *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | you *not said here* | Jack |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **waken** | would | brothers *= brother* | Jack |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | one |  |  |  | to another | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | what sort of apples |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus |
| 7 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Jack | apples *not said here* |  | Jack's head |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus |
| 8 | **sort** *in a quote* |  |  | apples |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «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.

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