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title: Others wished to be doubled, and went out, and of every one the Scor… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Others wished to be doubled, and went out, and of every one the Scorpion of Solomon made two. Who acts: Others, Scorpion. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 32

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Others wished to be doubled, and went out, and of every one the Scorpion of Solomon made two.

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**Who acts:** Others, Scorpion · **What happens:** wish, double, go out, make · **To what, where:** two

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (Others, Scorpion), 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:pg3282:4:32
# text = Others wished to be doubled, and went out, and of every one the Scorpion of Solomon made two.
1	Others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	doubled	double	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Scorpion	Scorpion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | Others |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **double** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | Others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
| 3 | **go out** | past | Others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | past | the Scorpion of Solomon | two |  |  |  | of every one | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Product |

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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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