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title: Give me my four middle brothers as companions, and keep the two othe… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Give me my four middle brothers as companions, and keep the two others as hostages.” Who acts: you. 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 61

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Give me my four middle brothers as companions, and keep the two others as hostages.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** give, keep · **To what, where:** four middle brothers, two others

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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: who acts (you), 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:pg2435:5:61
# text = Give me my four middle brothers as companions, and keep the two others as hostages.”
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	iobj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hostages	hostage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | my four middle brothers |  |  | as companions | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient brother=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the two others |  |  |  | as hostages | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme |

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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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