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title: Thus when the three brothers, each armed with a whip, entered the hu… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus when the three brothers, each armed with a whip, entered the hut a few seconds later, they found a woman extended on the floor, and Toueno kneeling at her side, whistling loudly into her ears. Who acts: three brothers, brothers, Toueno. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The L
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 45

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Thus when the three brothers, each armed with a whip, entered the hut a few seconds later, they found a woman extended on the floor, and Toueno kneeling at her side, whistling loudly into her ears.

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**Who acts:** three brothers, brothers, Toueno · **What happens:** enter, find, extend, kneel, whistle · **To what, where:** hut, woman, floor, side, ears

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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 (three brothers, brothers, Toueno), 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:pg3454:12:45
# text = Thus when the three brothers, each armed with a whip, entered the hut a few seconds later, they found a woman extended on the floor, and Toueno kneeling at her side, whistling loudly into her ears.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	whip	whip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	extended	extend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	Toueno	Toueno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	kneeling	kneel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	whistling	whistle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	_
38	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | the three brothers | the hut |  |  | second | late, thus *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination |
| 2 | **find** | past | brothers *= brother* | a woman |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic |
| 3 | **extend** | participle |  | a woman *not said here* |  | the floor |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location |
| 4 | **kneel** | gerund | Toueno |  |  | woman's side |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=Location |
| 5 | **whistle** | gerund | Toueno *not said here* |  |  | woman's ears |  | loudly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into ear=Recipient |

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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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