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title: At night the two brothers went home as they had done the night befor… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At night the two brothers went home as they had done the night before, and told how things had gone, and how everyone had ridden, but no one had been able to get up the hill. Who acts: two brothers, apples, things, everyone. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Gla
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 82

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At night the two brothers went home as they had done the night before, and told how things had gone, and how everyone had ridden, but no one had been able to get up the hill.

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**Who acts:** two brothers, apples, things, everyone, one · **What happens:** go, do, tell, ride, be, get up · **To what, where:** hill · **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, apples, things, 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:pg503:48:82
# text = At night the two brothers went home as they had done the night before, and told how things had gone, and how everyone had ridden, but no one had been able to get up the hill.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	before	before	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
25	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	ridden	ride	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	cop	_	_
34	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the two brothers |  |  |  | night | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect | apples *= apple* |  |  |  | night | before *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the two brothers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | past · perfect | things |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **ride** | past · perfect | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past · perfect | no one |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **get up** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | the hill |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hill=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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