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title: “Kill one of those deer for your own dinner,” said the boy-brother,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Kill one of those deer for your own dinner,” said the boy-brother, “but catch me another alive. Who acts: boy brother. 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 94

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“Kill one of those deer for your own dinner,” said the boy-brother, “but catch me another alive.

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**Who acts:** boy brother · **What happens:** kill, say, catch · **To what, where:** one, another, boy brother · **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 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy brother), 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:pg3282:28:94
# text = “Kill one of those deer for your own dinner,” said the boy-brother, “but catch me another alive.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	obj	_	_
24	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | one of that deer for your own dinner |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the boy brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **catch** *in a quote* | infinitive | the boy brother *not said here* | another | the boy brother *= brother* |  |  | alive *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary another=Theme |

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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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