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title: Before very long the young men who lived in the neighbouring village… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Before very long the young men who lived in the neighbouring villages or on the sides of the mountains, had heard of this talk of the three girls, and Sigmunds and Sigurds in scores came to visit the little cottage. Who acts: young men, Sigmunds, three girls. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 79

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Before very long the young men who lived in the neighbouring villages or on the sides of the mountains, had heard of this talk of the three girls, and Sigmunds and Sigurds in scores came to visit the little cottage.

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**Who acts:** young men, Sigmunds, three girls · **What happens:** live, hear, come, visit, talk · **To what, where:** neighbouring villages, little cottage

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young men, Sigmunds, three girls), 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:pg3282:13:79
# text = Before very long the young men who lived in the neighbouring villages or on the sides of the mountains, had heard of this talk of the three girls, and Sigmunds and Sigurds in scores came to visit the little cottage.
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	neighbouring	neighbouring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	Sigmunds	sigmund	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	Sigurds	Sigurd	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	scores	score	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
37	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the young men |  |  | the neighbouring villages or the sides of the mountains |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location |
| 2 | **hear** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | of this talk of the three girls | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of talk=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | past | Sigmunds in scores and Sigurds |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **visit** | to-infinitive | Sigmunds in scores and Sigurds *not said here* | the little cottage |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **talk** |  | the three girls |  |  |  |  |  | nom talk «communication 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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