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title: “Some of them have come, and have given me a portion of both,” answe… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Some of them have come, and have given me a portion of both,” answered the boy, “but many have stayed away from me.” Who acts: Some, boy, many. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 107

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“Some of them have come, and have given me a portion of both,” answered the boy, “but many have stayed away from me.”

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**Who acts:** Some, boy, many · **What happens:** come, give, answer, stay away · **To what, where:** portion, boy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, boy, many), 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:pg3282:6:107
# text = “Some of them have come, and have given me a portion of both,” answered the boy, “but many have stayed away from me.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
18	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Some |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Some *not said here* | a portion of both | the boy *= boy* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient portion=Theme |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stay away** *in a quote* | present · perfect | many |  |  |  |  | from the boy *= boy*; away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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