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title: So the two brothers set off again and soon reached the side of a hil… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the two brothers set off again and soon reached the side of a hill where some fine deer were grazing. Who acts: two brothers, fine deer. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 93

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So the two brothers set off again and soon reached the side of a hill where some fine deer were grazing.

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**Who acts:** two brothers, fine deer · **What happens:** set off, reach, graze · **To what, where:** side

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two brothers, fine deer), 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:pg3282:28:93
# text = So the two brothers set off again and soon reached the side of a hill where some fine deer were grazing.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	grazing	graze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set off** | past | the two brothers |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | past | the two brothers *not said here* | the side of a hill |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent side=Theme |
| 3 | **graze** | past · progressive | some fine deer |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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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