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title: The second brother eagerly swallowed the bait, and that evening the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The second brother eagerly swallowed the bait, and that evening the wolf was driven down to the field where the young man kept the sheep which had been left him by his father. Who acts: second brother, young man, father. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 37

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The second brother eagerly swallowed the bait, and that evening the wolf was driven down to the field where the young man kept the sheep which had been left him by his father.

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**Who acts:** second brother, young man, father · **What happens:** swallow, drive down, keep, leave · **To what, where:** bait, wolf, field, sheep, man

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second brother, young man, father), 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:pg3454:12:37
# text = The second brother eagerly swallowed the bait, and that evening the wolf was driven down to the field where the young man kept the sheep which had been left him by his father.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bait	bait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	iobj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **swallow** | past | the second brother | the bait |  |  |  | eagerly *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bait=Patient |
| 2 | **drive down** | past · passive |  | the wolf |  | the field | evening |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme to field=Trajectory |
| 3 | **keep** | past | the young man | the sheep |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive | ram's father | the sheep | man |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Theme he=Attribute |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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