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title: What became of the two elder I have never been able to discover, but… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: What became of the two elder I have never been able to discover, but the youngest went both far and wide. Who acts: I, youngest. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 5

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What became of the two elder I have never been able to discover, but the youngest went both far and wide.

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**Who acts:** I, youngest · **What happens:** become, not be, discover, go · **To what, where:** two elder

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, youngest), 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:pg540:9:5
# text = What became of the two elder I have never been able to discover, but the youngest went both far and wide.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	nsubj	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	both	both	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of the two elder | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present · perfect | I | the two elder *not said here* |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **discover** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past | the youngest |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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