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title: But again the younger brother interposed: ‘Oh, do let him live! — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But again the younger brother interposed: ‘Oh, do let him live! Who acts: younger brother, brother. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 124

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But again the younger brother interposed: ‘Oh, do let him live!

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**Who acts:** younger brother, brother · **What happens:** interpose, let, live · **To what, where:** brother

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (younger brother, brother), 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:pg5615:22:124
# text = But again the younger brother interposed: ‘Oh, do let him live!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	interposed	interpose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **interpose** *speech: other* | participle | the younger brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive · do-support | the younger brother *not said here* | brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | infinitive | brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «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 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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