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title: The hearts of the other young men were touched as soon as they heard… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The hearts of the other young men were touched as soon as they heard this story, and they did everything they could think of to make him forget his past sorrows. Who acts: men, baby. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 35

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The hearts of the other young men were touched as soon as they heard this story, and they did everything they could think of to make him forget his past sorrows.

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**Who acts:** men, baby · **What happens:** touch, hear, do, think, make, forget · **To what, where:** hearts, story, everything, baby, past sorrows · **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 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, baby), 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:pg3282:25:35
# text = The hearts of the other young men were touched as soon as they heard this story, and they did everything they could think of to make him forget his past sorrows.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	20	obj	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | past · passive |  | the hearts of the other young men |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | men *= man* | this story |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | past | men *= man* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | could | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | baby |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **forget** | infinitive | baby *not said here* | baby's past sorrows |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **sorrow** |  | baby |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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