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title: Armed with the precious whistle, the three brothers returned home fu… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Armed with the precious whistle, the three brothers returned home full of joy, and as they went the youngest said to the others, ‘I have such a good idea! Who acts: Armed three brothers, brothers, I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, with its depende
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 65

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Armed with the precious whistle, the three brothers returned home full of joy, and as they went the youngest said to the others, ‘I have such a good idea!

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**Who acts:** Armed three brothers, brothers, I · **What happens:** return, go, say, have · **To what, where:** youngest, others, good idea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Armed three brothers, brothers, I), 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:pg3454:12:65
# text = Armed with the precious whistle, the three brothers returned home full of joy, and as they went the youngest said to the others, ‘I have such a good idea!
1	Armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	obl	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	33	det:predet	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **return** | past | the Armed three brothers |  |  |  |  | full, home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | brothers *= brother* | the youngest |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  | the others |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient |
| 4 | **have** | present | I | such good idea |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |

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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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