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title: There were four other negroes at the place; three I killed and the f… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There were four other negroes at the place; three I killed and the fourth got away, and has taken refuge beneath the throne of Mihr-afruz, daughter of King Quimus. Who acts: four other negroes, I, fourth. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dep
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 124

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There were four other negroes at the place; three I killed and the fourth got away, and has taken refuge beneath the throne of Mihr-afruz, daughter of King Quimus.

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**Who acts:** four other negroes, I, fourth · **What happens:** be, kill, get away, take · **To what, where:** place, three, refuge

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four other negroes, I, fourth), 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:pg3282:5:124
# text = There were four other negroes at the place; three I killed and the fourth got away, and has taken refuge beneath the throne of Mihr-afruz, daughter of King Quimus.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	negroes	negro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fourth	fourth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
22	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	Mihr	Mihr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	afruz	afruz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Quimus	Quimus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | four other negroes |  |  | the place; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at place=Location |
| 2 | **kill** | past | I | three |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **get away** | past | the fourth |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | present · perfect | I *not said here* | refuge |  |  |  | beneath the throne of Mihr afruz and daughter of King Quimus | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refuge=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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