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description: It may easily be guessed that all this made the brothers more envious than they were before; and they cast about in their minds afresh how best they might destroy him. Who acts: this, brothers. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 97

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It may easily be guessed that all this made the brothers more envious than they were before; and they cast about in their minds afresh how best they might destroy him.

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**Who acts:** this, brothers · **What happens:** guess, make, be, cast about, destroy, mind · **To what, where:** seat, brothers, minds, Pinkel

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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 (this, brothers), 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:pg3027:16:97
# text = It may easily be guessed that all this made the brothers more envious than they were before; and they cast about in their minds afresh how best they might destroy him.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	guessed	guess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
14	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	before	before	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	cast	cast	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	afresh	afresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
28	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	parataxis	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | may · passive |  | seat |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | this | the brothers |  |  |  | envious *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset brother=Product |
| 3 | **is** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **cast about** | present | brothers *= brother* |  |  | brothers's minds |  | about *property* | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in mind=Destination |
| 5 | **destroy** | might | brothers *= brother* | Pinkel |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 6 | **mind** |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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