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title: That was their fate from eternity; and from the beginning it was pre… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That was their fate from eternity; and from the beginning it was predestined that my fate should be bound up with yours.” Who acts: That, my. 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 61

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That was their fate from eternity; and from the beginning it was predestined that my fate should be bound up with yours.”

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**Who acts:** That, my · **What happens:** be, predestine, bind up, fate · **To what, where:** fate, eternity, beginning

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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 (That, my), 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:pg3282:6:61
# text = That was their fate from eternity; and from the beginning it was predestined that my fate should be bound up with yours.”
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	eternity	eternity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	predestined	predestine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | That | hands's fate |  |  | from eternity |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **predestine** | past · passive |  | fate |  |  | from the beginning |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bind up** | should · passive |  | my fate |  |  |  | with yours | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with your=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **fate** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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