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title: The two eldest were grown up, and though they were known to be idle… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The two eldest were grown up, and though they were known to be idle fellows, some of the neighbours had given them work to do on account of the respect in which their mother was held. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 30

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The two eldest were grown up, and though they were known to be idle fellows, some of the neighbours had given them work to do on account of the respect in which their mother was held.

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**What happens:** grow up, know, be, give, work, do · **To what, where:** two, words, idle fellows, some, account, mother

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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: 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:pg3027:16:30
# text = The two eldest were grown up, and though they were known to be idle fellows, some of the neighbours had given them work to do on account of the respect in which their mother was held.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obl	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | past · passive |  | the two |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | past · passive |  | words *= word* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | idle fellows |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | some |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | account of the respect |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **hold** | past · passive |  | words's mother |  | the respect |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in which=Location |
| 8 | **account** |  |  | the respect |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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