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title: At last his next brother told the emperor that he likewise would go… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last his next brother told the emperor that he likewise would go out to hunt, and that perhaps he would find some clue as to his brother’s disappearance. Who acts: Dragon, brother. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 38

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At last his next brother told the emperor that he likewise would go out to hunt, and that perhaps he would find some clue as to his brother’s disappearance.

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**Who acts:** Dragon, brother · **What happens:** tell, go out, hunt, find, disappear · **To what, where:** emperor, clue · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dragon, brother), 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:pg2435:8:38
# text = At last his next brother told the emperor that he likewise would go out to hunt, and that perhaps he would find some clue as to his brother’s disappearance.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
14	out	out	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	clue	clue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	31	case	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the emperor |  |  | at Dragon's last next brother | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent emperor=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go out** | would | Dragon |  |  |  |  | likewise, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | Dragon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | would | Dragon | some clue |  |  |  | as Dragon's brother's disappearance; perhaps *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent clue=Theme as disappearance=Attribute |
| 5 | **disappear** |  | Dragon's brother |  |  |  |  |  | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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