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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 113

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So when the youth had been there for the space of a year or so, he wanted to go home again to pay his parents a visit; but when he got there his father and mother were dead, and his brothers had divided everything that their parents possessed between themselves, so that there was nothing at all left for him.

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**Who acts:** youth, number, father, parents · **What happens:** be, want, go, pay, get, divide · **To what, where:** parents, brothers, nothing, all

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, number, father, parents), 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:pg540:37:113
# text = So when the youth had been there for the space of a year or so, he wanted to go home again to pay his parents a visit; but when he got there his father and mother were dead, and his brothers had divided everything that their parents possessed between themselves, so that there was nothing at all left for him.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	home	home	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
34	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
40	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	_
47	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	46	obj	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
49	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	nsubj	_	_
51	possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	acl	_	_
52	between	between	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	58	mark	_	_
56	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	55	fixed	_	_
57	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	58	expl	_	_
58	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
59	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	47	appos	_	_
60	at	at	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	59	nmod	_	_
62	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
63	for	for	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | the youth |  |  |  |  | for the space of a year; there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | past | number |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | number *not said here* |  |  |  | again | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pay** | to-infinitive | number *not said here* |  | number's parents |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient visit=Asset |
| 5 | **get** | past | number |  |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | past | number's father and mother |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **divide** | past · perfect · passive |  | number's brothers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **possess** | participle |  | brothers's parents *not said here* |  |  |  | between brothers *= brother* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 9 | **is a** | past | brothers's parents | nothing |  | all |  |  | 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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