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title: But almost before he was out of the house another boy was born, and… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But almost before he was out of the house another boy was born, and he too looked about him, and said, ‘Ah, my dear mother! give me some of my brothers’ old clothes, and food for some days, and then I will go out into the world and find my twin brother, for you have children enough.’ Who acts: Heave
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 67

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But almost before he was out of the house another boy was born, and he too looked about him, and said, ‘Ah, my dear mother! give me some of my brothers’ old clothes, and food for some days, and then I will go out into the world and find my twin brother, for you have children enough.’

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**Who acts:** Heaven, dear mother, I, you · **What happens:** be, bear, look, say, give, go out · **To what, where:** house, old clothes, me, world, twin brother, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (Heaven, dear mother, I, you), 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:pg540:44:67
# text = But almost before he was out of the house another boy was born, and he too looked about him, and said, ‘Ah, my dear mother! give me some of my brothers’ old clothes, and food for some days, and then I will go out into the world and find my twin brother, for you have children enough.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
3	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
32	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	_
34	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	det	_	_
46	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
49	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	52	advmod	_	_
50	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
53	out	out	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
54	into	into	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	conj	_	_
59	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
60	twin	twin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
63	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	65	mark	_	_
64	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
65	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	advcl	_	_
66	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	obj	_	_
67	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	52	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Heaven |  |  | the house |  | almost *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | past · passive |  | the house |  |  |  | food for some days *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | past | Heaven |  |  |  |  | about boy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Heaven *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **give** | infinitive | my dear mother | my brothers's old clothes | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clothes=Theme |
| 6 | **go out** | future | I |  |  | the world | then | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **find** | infinitive | I *not said here* | my twin brother |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic |
| 8 | **have** | present | you | children |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |

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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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