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title: When they had walked on a little farther they came to a brook which… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they had walked on a little farther they came to a brook which ran through a green meadow, and there the younger said that they ought to christen each other. Who acts: brothers, brook, younger. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1, with its dependency tree and
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 73

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When they had walked on a little farther they came to a brook which ran through a green meadow, and there the younger said that they ought to christen each other.

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**Who acts:** brothers, brook, younger · **What happens:** walk, come, run, say, christen · **To what, where:** brook, green meadow, each · **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 (brothers, brook, younger), 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:pg540:44:73
# text = When they had walked on a little farther they came to a brook which ran through a green meadow, and there the younger said that they ought to christen each other.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
8	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	obl	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	nsubj	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	christen	christen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
31	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	30	obj	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · perfect | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on far=Trajectory |
| 2 | **come** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  | a brook |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to brook=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **run** | past | a brook |  |  | a green meadow |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through meadow=Trajectory |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | younger |  |  | there |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **christen** | ought | brothers *= brother* | each |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme |

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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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