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title: One day the eldest brother, who had never done anything but amuse hi… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day the eldest brother, who had never done anything but amuse himself from sunrise to sunset, said to the rest, ‘Let us all work hard, and perhaps we shall grow rich, and be able to build ourselves a palace.’ Who acts: eldest brother, One day, we. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew La
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 39

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One day the eldest brother, who had never done anything but amuse himself from sunrise to sunset, said to the rest, ‘Let us all work hard, and perhaps we shall grow rich, and be able to build ourselves a palace.’

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**Who acts:** eldest brother, One day, we · **What happens:** not do, amuse, say, let, work, grow · **To what, where:** anything, Labros, us, ourselves · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest brother, One day, we), 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:pg5615:20:39
# text = One day the eldest brother, who had never done anything but amuse himself from sunrise to sunset, said to the rest, ‘Let us all work hard, and perhaps we shall grow rich, and be able to build ourselves a palace.’
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	amuse	amuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	advmod	_	_
29	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
30	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
37	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	cop	_	_
41	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	43	obj	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | past · perfect | the eldest brother | anything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
| 2 | **amuse** | present | the eldest brother *not said here* | Labros |  |  | sunrise |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | One day |  |  |  |  | to the rest | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to rest=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 5 | **work** | present |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **grow** | shall | we |  |  |  |  | perhaps, rich *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **build** | to-infinitive |  | ourselves |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset ourselves=Beneficiary palace=Product |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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