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title: Invitations were sent out to the friends and relations, and when, on… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Invitations were sent out to the friends and relations, and when, on the morning of the great day, they were all assembled, a rough, coarse old peasant left the crowd and came up to the brides’ father. Who acts: rough coarse old peasant. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 83

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Invitations were sent out to the friends and relations, and when, on the morning of the great day, they were all assembled, a rough, coarse old peasant left the crowd and came up to the brides’ father.

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**Who acts:** rough coarse old peasant · **What happens:** send out, assemble, leave, come up · **To what, where:** Invitations, friends, crowd

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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 (rough coarse old peasant), 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:pg3282:13:83
# text = Invitations were sent out to the friends and relations, and when, on the morning of the great day, they were all assembled, a rough, coarse old peasant left the crowd and came up to the brides’ father.
1	Invitations	invitation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	all	all	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
28	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	coarse	coarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
38	up	up	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	brides	bride	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	_
43	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send out** | past · passive |  | Invitations | the friends and relations |  | morning |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to friend=Destination |
| 2 | **assemble** | past · passive |  | Invitations *= invitation* |  |  |  | all *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | past | a rough coarse old peasant | the crowd |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowd=Theme |
| 4 | **come up** | past | a rough coarse old peasant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the brides's father | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial\_Location |

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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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