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title: On the same day the two brothers set out on their journey to the cit… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the same day the two brothers set out on their journey to the city, the rich one on horseback, with plenty of food in his knapsack, the poor one on foot with nothing but a piece of bread and four onions to eat on the way. Who acts: things. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 71

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On the same day the two brothers set out on their journey to the city, the rich one on horseback, with plenty of food in his knapsack, the poor one on foot with nothing but a piece of bread and four onions to eat on the way.

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**Who acts:** things · **What happens:** set out, eat, journey · **To what, where:** two brothers, journey, way

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things), 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:pg3454:19:71
# text = On the same day the two brothers set out on their journey to the city, the rich one on horseback, with plenty of food in his knapsack, the poor one on foot with nothing but a piece of bread and four onions to eat on the way.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	33	nmod	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	onions	onion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	acl	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | participle |  | the two brothers *not said here* |  | things's journey |  | to the city | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the way |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **journey** |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act 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 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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