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title: They always brought their spoils home to Benjamin, who soon learnt t… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They always brought their spoils home to Benjamin, who soon learnt to make them into dainty dishes. Who acts: hands, Benjamin. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 25

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They always brought their spoils home to Benjamin, who soon learnt to make them into dainty dishes.

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**Who acts:** hands, Benjamin · **What happens:** bring, spoil, learn, make · **To what, where:** Benjamin, hands, dainty dishes

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands, Benjamin), 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:pg540:41:25
# text = They always brought their spoils home to Benjamin, who soon learnt to make them into dainty dishes.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	spoils	spoil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	learnt	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	dainty	dainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spoil** | present | hands *= hand* *not said here* |  | Benjamin |  |  | home *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **learn** | past | Benjamin |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | Benjamin *not said here* | hands *= hand* |  | dainty dishes |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into dish=Product |

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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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