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title: There they embraced and parted, promising that if anything remarkabl… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There they embraced and parted, promising that if anything remarkable had happened to either, he would return to the cross roads and wait till his brother came. Who acts: brothers, anything, road, brother. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, par
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 85

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There they embraced and parted, promising that if anything remarkable had happened to either, he would return to the cross roads and wait till his brother came.

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**Who acts:** brothers, anything, road, brother · **What happens:** embrace, part, promise, happen, return, wait · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, anything, road, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3282:3376`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:37:85
# text = There they embraced and parted, promising that if anything remarkable had happened to either, he would return to the cross roads and wait till his brother came.
1	There	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	parted	part	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
11	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	either	either	DET	DT	_	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
26	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embrace** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  | there |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **part** | past | brothers *= brother* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | brothers *= brother* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **happen** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | anything |  |  |  |  | to either | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **return** | would | road |  |  |  |  | to the cross roads *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to road=Result |
| 6 | **wait** | infinitive | road *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **come** | past | road's brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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