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title: Cinderlad’s two brothers were there too, but they would not hear of… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Cinderlad’s two brothers were there too, but they would not hear of letting him go with them, for he was so dirty and black with sleeping and grubbing among the ashes that they said everyone would laugh at them if they were seen in the company of such an oaf. Who acts: two brothers, princes, brother
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 51

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Cinderlad’s two brothers were there too, but they would not hear of letting him go with them, for he was so dirty and black with sleeping and grubbing among the ashes that they said everyone would laugh at them if they were seen in the company of such an oaf.

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**Who acts:** two brothers, princes, brother, everyone · **What happens:** be, not hear, let, go, grub, say · **To what, where:** brother, ashes, princes, company · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two brothers, princes, brother, everyone), 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:pg503:48:51
# text = Cinderlad’s two brothers were there too, but they would not hear of letting him go with them, for he was so dirty and black with sleeping and grubbing among the ashes that they said everyone would laugh at them if they were seen in the company of such an oaf.
1	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	grubbing	grub	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
32	among	among	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obj	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
38	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	40	nsubj	_	_
39	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	ccomp	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	_
43	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	advcl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	53	det:predet	_	_
52	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	oaf	oaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Cinderlad's two brothers |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **hear** | would | princes *= prince* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **let** | gerund | princes *= prince* *not said here* | brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with princes *= prince* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **is** | past | brother |  |  |  |  | with sleeping; dirty *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **grub** | gerund | brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among the ashes | tree rules |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | princes *= prince* | the ashes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **laugh** | would | everyone |  |  |  |  | at princes *= prince* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | princes *= prince* |  | the company of such oaf |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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