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title: They were all called “Hankur,” and were distinguished one from anoth… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They were all called “Hankur,” and were distinguished one from another by the name of a colour—blue, grey, red, and so on, except their chief, who was known as Hankur the Tall. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 88

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They were all called “Hankur,” and were distinguished one from another by the name of a colour—blue, grey, red, and so on, except their chief, who was known as Hankur the Tall.

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**What happens:** call, be, know, name · **To what, where:** robbers, distinguished one, another, chief, colour · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:pg3282:12:88
# text = They were all called “Hankur,” and were distinguished one from another by the name of a colour—blue, grey, red, and so on, except their chief, who was known as Hankur the Tall.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Hankur	Hankur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nmod	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	except	except	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Hankur	Hankur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Tall	Tall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · passive |  | robbers *= robber* |  |  |  | all *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | distinguished one |  | another |  | by the name of a colour | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | past · passive |  | robbers's chief |  |  |  | as Hankur | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as hankur=Attribute |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | a colour |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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 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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