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title: 'For long my brothers on the other side of the mountain have besough… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'For long my brothers on the other side of the mountain have besought me to visit them, but never could I go for fear of my falcon. Who acts: long brothers, I. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 60

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'For long my brothers on the other side of the mountain have besought me to visit them, but never could I go for fear of my falcon.

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**Who acts:** long brothers, I · **What happens:** beseech, visit, not go, fear · **To what, where:** me, brothers, falcon

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long brothers, 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:pg3027:7:60
# text = 'For long my brothers on the other side of the mountain have besought me to visit them, but never could I go for fear of my falcon.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	besought	beseech	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beseech** | present · perfect | my long brothers on the other side of the mountain | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **visit** | to-infinitive | my long brothers on the other side of the mountain *not said here* | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **not** **go** | could | I |  |  |  |  | for fear of my falcon | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for fear=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **fear** |  |  | my falcon |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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