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title: The Most High God gave me seven sons who grew up well versed in all… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Most High God gave me seven sons who grew up well versed in all princely arts. Who acts: Most High God, seven sons. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 58

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The Most High God gave me seven sons who grew up well versed in all princely arts.

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**Who acts:** Most High God, seven sons · **What happens:** give, grow up, verse · **To what, where:** seven sons, me, princely arts

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most High God, seven sons), 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:pg3282:1:58
# text = The Most High God gave me seven sons who grew up well versed in all princely arts.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
3	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	versed	verse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
16	princely	princely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the Most High God | seven sons | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient son=Theme |
| 2 | **grow up** | past | seven sons |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **verse** | participle | seven sons *not said here* |  |  | all princely arts |  | well *property* | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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