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title: Now the question began to arise whose was the lucky arrow, for they… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the question began to arise whose was the lucky arrow, for they were both alike, and look as closely as you would you could see no difference between them. Who acts: question, arrows, you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tre
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 133

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Now the question began to arise whose was the lucky arrow, for they were both alike, and look as closely as you would you could see no difference between them.

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**Who acts:** question, arrows, you · **What happens:** begin, arise, be, look, see · **To what, where:** lucky arrow, difference

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (question, arrows, you), 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:pg3282:22:133
# text = Now the question began to arise whose was the lucky arrow, for they were both alike, and look as closely as you would you could see no difference between them.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	arise	arise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	both	both	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	between	between	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the question |  |  |  | now |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **arise** | to-infinitive | the question *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | the lucky arrow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | arrows *= arrow* |  |  |  |  | alike, both *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | infinitive | the question *not said here* |  |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **see** | could | you | no difference |  |  |  | between arrows *= arrow* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer difference=Stimulus |

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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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