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title: My brothers have also gone, no one know whither, and of us four none… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: My brothers have also gone, no one know whither, and of us four none remains but I. No, therefore, I long to seek them, and I pray you and my mother to place no hindrance in my way.' Who acts: brothers, one, none, I.. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its d
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 45

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My brothers have also gone, no one know whither, and of us four none remains but I. No, therefore, I long to seek them, and I pray you and my mother to place no hindrance in my way.'

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**Who acts:** brothers, one, none, I., I · **What happens:** go, know, remain, seek, pray · **To what, where:** Covan, you

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, one, none, I.), 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:pg3027:30:45
# text = My brothers have also gone, no one know whither, and of us four none remains but I. No, therefore, I long to seek them, and I pray you and my mother to place no hindrance in my way.'
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
15	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	17	nsubj	_	_
17	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
19	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
20	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	27	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	40	det	_	_
40	hindrance	hindrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · perfect | My brothers |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | infinitive | no one |  |  |  |  | whither *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **remain** | present | none |  |  |  |  | of us | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive | I. | Covan |  |  |  | long, therefore *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **pray** | present | I | you |  |  |  | to place | 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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