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title: His brother and sister ran to meet him, and called out from the dist… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His brother and sister ran to meet him, and called out from the distance, ‘Where have you been so long, Lasse? Who acts: brother, you. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 21

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His brother and sister ran to meet him, and called out from the distance, ‘Where have you been so long, Lasse?

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**Who acts:** brother, you · **What happens:** run, meet, call out, have, be · **To what, where:** Lasse

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, you), 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:pg3454:15:21
# text = His brother and sister ran to meet him, and called out from the distance, ‘Where have you been so long, Lasse?
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | Lasse's brother and sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Lasse's brother and sister *not said here* | Lasse |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | Lasse's brother and sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from the distance | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from distance=Source |
| 4 | **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Lasse *vocative*; long *property* | tree rules |

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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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