--- title: And I thought once that your youngest brother put me in the wrong be… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And I thought once that your youngest brother put me in the wrong bed, when he put all those snakes to bite me all night long, until your second brother told me 'So it was to be,' and said, 'It is the same here,' but said you had none in your beds." 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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 (I, youngest brother, London, second brother), 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:pg14241:27:9 # text = And I thought once that your youngest brother put me in the wrong bed, when he put all those snakes to bite me all night long, until your second brother told me 'So it was to be,' and said, 'It is the same here,' but said you had none in your beds." 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 advmod _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 21 det:predet _ _ 20 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 until until SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 32 amod _ _ 32 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 34 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 iobj _ _ 35 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 So so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 46 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 48 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 ccomp _ _ 51 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 50 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ _ 54 but but CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 55 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 56 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 57 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 55 ccomp _ _ 58 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 57 obj _ _ 59 in in ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 61 nmod:poss _ _ 61 beds bed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 58 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 62 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 63 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I | | | | | once *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **put** | past | your youngest brother | me | | the wrong bed | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in bed=Destination | | 3 | **put** | past | London | | all snakes | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent snake=Goal | | 4 | **bite** | to-infinitive | London *not said here* | me | | | night | long *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | your second brother | | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **is** *not said to happen* | past | bed | | | | | be *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | your second brother *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | present | bed | | | here | | same *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 10 | **have** | past | you | none | | your beds | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/27/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/27/10/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/27/)