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title: ‘Not far from here on a moor stand three brothers, who have stood th… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Not far from here on a moor stand three brothers, who have stood there a hundred years fighting for a hat, a cloak, and a pair of boots; if any one has these three things he can make himself invisible, and if he desires to go to any place, he has but to wish and he is there. Who acts: you, three br
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 72

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‘Not far from here on a moor stand three brothers, who have stood there a hundred years fighting for a hat, a cloak, and a pair of boots; if any one has these three things he can make himself invisible, and if he desires to go to any place, he has but to wish and he is there.

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**Who acts:** you, three brothers, hundred years, one, thing · **What happens:** stand, fight, have, make, desire, go · **To what, where:** three brothers, moor, three things, thing, place

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, three brothers, hundred years, one), 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:pg540:26:72
# text = ‘Not far from here on a moor stand three brothers, who have stood there a hundred years fighting for a hat, a cloak, and a pair of boots; if any one has these three things he can make himself invisible, and if he desires to go to any place, he has but to wish and he is there.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
38	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
39	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl:relcl	_	_
44	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	43	obj	_	_
45	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
48	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	desires	desire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	advcl	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	xcomp	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	55	det	_	_
55	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
57	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
59	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
60	to	to	PART	TO	_	61	mark	_	_
61	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	conj	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
63	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
64	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	65	cop	_	_
65	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	61	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* | three brothers |  | a moor |  | a pair of boots *obl*; far *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent brother=Theme on moor=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | present · perfect | three brothers |  |  | there | year |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fight** | gerund | hundred years *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a hat and a cloak | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | any one | this three things |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | can | thing | thing |  |  |  | invisible *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product |
| 6 | **desire** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | thing *not said here* |  |  | any place |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **have** | present | thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **wish** | to-infinitive | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 10 | **is** | present | thing |  |  |  |  | there *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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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