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title: They made up their minds to live altogether for a time in their tree… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They made up their minds to live altogether for a time in their trees, and for this purpose they had provisions enough stored up inside to last them a year. Who acts: children. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 37

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They made up their minds to live altogether for a time in their trees, and for this purpose they had provisions enough stored up inside to last them a year.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** make up, live, have, store up, last, mind · **To what, where:** minds, provisions, children

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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:pg3282:30:37
# text = They made up their minds to live altogether for a time in their trees, and for this purpose they had provisions enough stored up inside to last them a year.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | past | children *= child* | children's minds |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 2 | **live** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  | time | altogether *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | for this purpose | tree rules |
| 4 | **store up** | participle · passive |  | provisions |  |  |  | enough, inside *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **last** | to-infinitive |  | children *= child* |  |  | year |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme they=Value |
| 6 | **mind** |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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