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title: He mourned for him in black raiment for forty days; and then, a few… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He mourned for him in black raiment for forty days; and then, a few days later, his second son, Prince Qamas, extracted from him leave to go too; and he, also, was put to death. Who acts: news, second son. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, with its de
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 12

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He mourned for him in black raiment for forty days; and then, a few days later, his second son, Prince Qamas, extracted from him leave to go too; and he, also, was put to death.

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**Who acts:** news, second son · **What happens:** mourn, extract, leave, go, put · **To what, where:** black raiment, news

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news, second son), 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:pg3282:2:12
# text = He mourned for him in black raiment for forty days; and then, a few days later, his second son, Prince Qamas, extracted from him leave to go too; and he, also, was put to death.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mourned	mourn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	raiment	raiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	Qamas	Qamas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	extracted	extract	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	too	too	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
38	also	also	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mourn** | past | news |  |  | black raiment | day | for prince; late *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for he=Attribute |
| 2 | **extract** | past | news's second son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from news | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | infinitive | news's second son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | news's second son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **put** | past · passive |  | news |  |  |  | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |

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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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