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title: At length the envy of his brothers became so great that they could b… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length the envy of his brothers became so great that they could bear it no longer, and consulted together how best they might ruin his credit with the king. Who acts: envy, brothers, best. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 61

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At length the envy of his brothers became so great that they could bear it no longer, and consulted together how best they might ruin his credit with the king.

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**Who acts:** envy, brothers, best · **What happens:** become, bear, consult, ruin, envy, credit · **To what, where:** length, credit, brothers

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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 (envy, brothers, best), 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:pg3027:16:61
# text = At length the envy of his brothers became so great that they could bear it no longer, and consulted together how best they might ruin his credit with the king.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	no	no	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	consulted	consult	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
23	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	nsubj	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	ruin	ruin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the envy of envy's brothers |  |  | length |  | great *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **bear** | could | brothers *= brother* | length |  |  |  | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **consult** | participle | the envy of envy's brothers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ruin** | might | best | envy's credit |  |  |  | with the king | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent credit=Patient with king=Instrument |
| 5 | **envy** |  |  | envy's brothers |  |  |  |  | nom envy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **credit** |  | envy |  |  |  |  |  | nom credit «communication transitive»: 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 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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