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title: ‘We are going to find bonny brides for ourselves, and one for our yo… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘We are going to find bonny brides for ourselves, and one for our youngest brother at home,’ they replied. Who acts: We, brothers. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 105

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‘We are going to find bonny brides for ourselves, and one for our youngest brother at home,’ they replied.

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**Who acts:** We, brothers · **What happens:** go, find, reply · **To what, where:** bonny brides

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, brothers), 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:pg5615:21:105
# text = ‘We are going to find bonny brides for ourselves, and one for our youngest brother at home,’ they replied.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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	aux	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	bonny	bonny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	brides	bride	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nsubj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · progressive | We |  |  |  |  | for our youngest brother at home | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | bonny brides |  |  |  | for ourselves | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bride=Theme for ourselves=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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