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title: The brothers were pleased with this idea, and gave him the stuff; bu… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The brothers were pleased with this idea, and gave him the stuff; but the moment he had thrown it over his shoulder he disappeared as completely as if he had never been there at all. Who acts: brothers, youth, moment. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 73

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The brothers were pleased with this idea, and gave him the stuff; but the moment he had thrown it over his shoulder he disappeared as completely as if he had never been there at all.

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**Who acts:** brothers, youth, moment · **What happens:** be, give, throw, disappear, not be · **To what, where:** stuff, youth, shoulder, all

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, youth, moment), 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:pg3282:24:73
# text = The brothers were pleased with this idea, and gave him the stuff; but the moment he had thrown it over his shoulder he disappeared as completely as if he had never been there at all.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	cop	_	_
35	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advcl	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the brothers |  |  |  |  | with this idea; pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past | the brothers *not said here* | the stuff | youth |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient stuff=Theme |
| 3 | **throw** | past · perfect | youth | stuff |  | youth's shoulder |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over shoulder=Destination |
| 4 | **disappear** | past | the moment |  |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | youth |  |  | all |  | there *property* | tree rules |

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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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