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title: On the morning after this happened the younger brither took out the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the morning after this happened the younger brither took out the knife to look at it, and he was grieved to find it a’ brown wi’ rust. Who acts: this, younger brither. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 34

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On the morning after this happened the younger brither took out the knife to look at it, and he was grieved to find it a’ brown wi’ rust.

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**Who acts:** this, younger brither · **What happens:** happen, take out, look, grieve, find · **To what, where:** knife, man, brither

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, younger brither), 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:pg503:56:34
# text = On the morning after this happened the younger brither took out the knife to look at it, and he was grieved to find it a’ brown wi’ rust.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
6	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	brither	brither	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
28	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	wi	wi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	rust	rust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | this |  |  |  | morning |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take out** | past | the younger brither | the knife |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | the younger brither *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at brither | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 4 | **grieve** | past · passive |  | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | brither |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme rust=Attribute |

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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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