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title: They came roaring up, and put fresh life into the prince. — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They came roaring up, and put fresh life into the prince. Who acts: scourges. 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 45

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They came roaring up, and put fresh life into the prince.

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**Who acts:** scourges · **What happens:** come, roar up, put · **To what, where:** fresh life

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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 (scourges), 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:pg3282:4:45
# text = They came roaring up, and put fresh life into the prince.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | scourges *= scourge* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **roar up** | gerund | scourges *= scourge* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | scourges *= scourge* *not said here* | fresh life |  |  |  | into the prince | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent life=Goal |

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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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