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title: The cause of their quarrel was known only to themselves, but everybo… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The cause of their quarrel was known only to themselves, but everybody was aware of the fact, and took care to be out of the way when there was any chance of these two meeting. Who acts: everybody, enemies, two meeting. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simpl
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 29

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The cause of their quarrel was known only to themselves, but everybody was aware of the fact, and took care to be out of the way when there was any chance of these two meeting.

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**Who acts:** everybody, enemies, two meeting · **What happens:** know, be, take, cause, quarrel, chance · **To what, where:** cause, enemies, care, way, quarrel

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everybody, enemies, two meeting), 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:pg3282:36:29
# text = The cause of their quarrel was known only to themselves, but everybody was aware of the fact, and took care to be out of the way when there was any chance of these two meeting.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
22	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	advcl	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
30	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	31	expl	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
36	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | the cause of enemies's quarrel | enemies *= enemy* |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | everybody |  |  |  |  | of the fact; aware *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past |  | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the way |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cause** |  |  | enemies's quarrel |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **quarrel** |  | enemies *= enemy* |  |  |  |  |  | nom quarrel «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **chance** |  | this two meeting |  |  |  |  |  | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=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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