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title: ‘Heaven alone knows in what part of the wide world they are wanderin… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Heaven alone knows in what part of the wide world they are wandering,’ replied her mother. Who acts: Heaven, brothers. 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 35

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‘Heaven alone knows in what part of the wide world they are wandering,’ replied her mother.

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**Who acts:** Heaven, brothers · **What happens:** know, wonder, reply · **To what, where:** part, wide world, mother

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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 (Heaven, brothers), 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:pg540:41:35
# text = ‘Heaven alone knows in what part of the wide world they are wandering,’ replied her mother.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	7	det	_	_
7	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
17	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Heaven |  |  | what part of the wide world |  | alone *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present · progressive | brothers *= brother* | the wide world *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | Heaven's mother |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic |

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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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