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title: At last the young man gave in, and threw the fish back into the sea;… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last the young man gave in, and threw the fish back into the sea; and both brothers went supperless to bed, and wondered what fortune the next day would bring. Who acts: brothers, next day. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 127

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At last the young man gave in, and threw the fish back into the sea; and both brothers went supperless to bed, and wondered what fortune the next day would bring.

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**Who acts:** brothers, next day · **What happens:** give in, throw back, go, wonder, bring · **To what, where:** fish, sea, bed, fortune · **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 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, next day), 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:pg5615:22:127
# text = At last the young man gave in, and threw the fish back into the sea; and both brothers went supperless to bed, and wondered what fortune the next day would bring.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	supperless	supperless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
28	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	29	det	_	_
29	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give in** | past |  |  |  |  |  | at the last young man | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **throw back** | past |  | the fish |  |  |  | into the sea *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer fish=Theme into sea=Result |
| 3 | **go** | past | both brothers |  |  | bed |  | supperless *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past |  | what fortune |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bring** | would | the next day |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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