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title: Very early on the third morning the two young men started on their j… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Very early on the third morning the two young men started on their journey, and on the fourth day they reached the giant’s cave before he was out of bed. Who acts: two young men, friends, man. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tre
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 123

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Very early on the third morning the two young men started on their journey, and on the fourth day they reached the giant’s cave before he was out of bed.

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**Who acts:** two young men, friends, man · **What happens:** start, reach, be, journey · **To what, where:** journey, cave

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two young men, friends, man), 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:pg3282:12:123
# text = Very early on the third morning the two young men started on their journey, and on the fourth day they reached the giant’s cave before he was out of bed.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	before	before	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | the two young men |  |  | friends's journey | morning | early *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **reach** | past | friends *= friend* | the giant's cave |  |  | day |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cave=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  | before bed |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **journey** |  | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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