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title: Let my brother’s ship be laden with rich stuffs, brocades, Persian c… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Let my brother’s ship be laden with rich stuffs, brocades, Persian carpets, pearls and jewels. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 59

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Let my brother’s ship be laden with rich stuffs, brocades, Persian carpets, pearls and jewels.

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**What happens:** let, lade · **To what, where:** ship

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2435:5:59
# text = Let my brother’s ship be laden with rich stuffs, brocades, Persian carpets, pearls and jewels.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	cc	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	brocades	brocade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	carpets	carpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive |  | my brother's ship |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme |
| 2 | **lade** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with rich stuffs and brocades and Persian carpets and pearls and jewels | tree rules |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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