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title: My brother the Red Gruagach will take the head off Manus as well in… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: My brother the Red Gruagach will take the head off Manus as well in Old Bergen as elsewhere.' Who acts: brother. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 18

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My brother the Red Gruagach will take the head off Manus as well in Old Bergen as elsewhere.'

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**Who acts:** brother · **What happens:** take off · **To what, where:** head, Old Bergen

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg3027:16:18
# text = My brother the Red Gruagach will take the head off Manus as well in Old Bergen as elsewhere.'
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
5	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
11	Manus	manus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	7	advmod	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	fixed	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Bergen	Bergen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	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 | **take off** | future | My brother | the head |  | Old Bergen |  |  | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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