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title: You may see photographs of these merry little black fellows before t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You may see photographs of these merry little black fellows before their troubles begin, in “Northern Races of Central Australia,” by Messrs. Who acts: You, troubles, fellows, Central Australia. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tr
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 7

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You may see photographs of these merry little black fellows before their troubles begin, in “Northern Races of Central Australia,” by Messrs.

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**Who acts:** You, troubles, fellows, Central Australia · **What happens:** see, begin, trouble, race · **To what, where:** photographs, Northern Races

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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 (You, troubles, fellows, Central Australia), 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:pg3282:1:7
# text = You may see photographs of these merry little black fellows before their troubles begin, in “Northern Races of Central Australia,” by Messrs.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	photographs	photograph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
7	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	troubles	trouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
22	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Messrs	Messrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | may | You | photographs of merry little black fellows |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer photograph=Stimulus |
| 2 | **begin** | present | fellows's troubles |  |  | Northern Races of Central Australia |  | by Messrs | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **trouble** |  | fellows *= fellow* |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **race** *in a quote* |  | Central Australia |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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