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title: There were other young men too, who bore different names, though not… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There were other young men too, who bore different names, though not one of them was called “Hábogi,” and these thought that they might perhaps gain the heart of the youngest. Who acts: other young men, these, men. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, w
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 80

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There were other young men too, who bore different names, though not one of them was called “Hábogi,” and these thought that they might perhaps gain the heart of the youngest.

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**Who acts:** other young men, these, men · **What happens:** be, bear, call, think, gain · **To what, where:** different names, one, heart · **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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other young men, these, men), 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:pg3282:13:80
# text = There were other young men too, who bore different names, though not one of them was called “Hábogi,” and these thought that they might perhaps gain the heart of the youngest.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Hábogi	Hábogi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
26	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | other young men |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | past |  | different names |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | past · passive |  | one of men |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | these |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **gain** | might | men *= man* | the heart of the youngest |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |

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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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