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title: He could not for very shame be outdone by his younger brother, and p… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He could not for very shame be outdone by his younger brother, and passed behind him into another splendid hall, which was filled from floor to ceiling with great pieces of copper money. Who acts: younger brother. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its depen
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 131

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He could not for very shame be outdone by his younger brother, and passed behind him into another splendid hall, which was filled from floor to ceiling with great pieces of copper money.

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**Who acts:** younger brother · **What happens:** outdo, pass, fill · **To what, where:** Jack, splendid hall, floor

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (younger 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:pg3027:19:131
# text = He could not for very shame be outdone by his younger brother, and passed behind him into another splendid hall, which was filled from floor to ceiling with great pieces of copper money.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	outdone	outdo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
16	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
20	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **outdo** | could · passive | Jack's younger brother | Jack |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | participle | Jack's younger brother *not said here* |  |  | another splendid hall |  | behind Jack | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind he=Location |
| 3 | **fill** | past · passive |  | another splendid hall |  | floor |  | to ceiling; with great pieces of copper money | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with piece=Instrument |

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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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