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title: 'I am your brother,' replied the stranger, 'and I have returned home… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'I am your brother,' replied the stranger, 'and I have returned home without the money I hoped to have made. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 69

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'I am your brother,' replied the stranger, 'and I have returned home without the money I hoped to have made.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, reply, return, hope, make · **To what, where:** brother, stranger, money · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg3027:31:69
# text = 'I am your brother,' replied the stranger, 'and I have returned home without the money I hoped to have made.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
8	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | your brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | the stranger |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stranger=Topic |
| 3 | **return** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | without the money; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hope** | past | I | the money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · perfect | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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