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title: For we are brothers of the Princess whom thou art to have when thou… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For we are brothers of the Princess whom thou art to have when thou canst tell the King what we eat and drink, but there is a mighty Troll who has cast a spell over us. Who acts: we, thou, mighty Troll. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 82

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For we are brothers of the Princess whom thou art to have when thou canst tell the King what we eat and drink, but there is a mighty Troll who has cast a spell over us.

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**Who acts:** we, thou, mighty Troll · **What happens:** be, have, tell, eat, drink, cast · **To what, where:** King, spell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, thou, mighty Troll), 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:pg540:49:82
# text = For we are brothers of the Princess whom thou art to have when thou canst tell the King what we eat and drink, but there is a mighty Troll who has cast a spell over us.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
15	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
27	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
32	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	over	over	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | we |  |  |  |  | for brothers; of the Princess | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | thou |  | the King |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **eat** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 5 | **drink** | present | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **be** | present | a mighty Troll |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **cast** | present · perfect | a mighty Troll | a spell |  |  |  | over us | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spell=Theme over we=Destination |

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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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