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title: I had six brothers, who went away to find brides for themselves and… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I had six brothers, who went away to find brides for themselves and one for me; but they have never come home, so now I am going to look for them.’ Who acts: I, six brothers, flowers. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 44

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I had six brothers, who went away to find brides for themselves and one for me; but they have never come home, so now I am going to look for them.’

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**Who acts:** I, six brothers, flowers · **What happens:** have, go away, find, not come, go, look · **To what, where:** six brothers, brides

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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 (I, six brothers, flowers), 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:pg5615:22:44
# text = I had six brothers, who went away to find brides for themselves and one for me; but they have never come home, so now I am going to look for them.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	brides	bride	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
24	home	home	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | I | six brothers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |
| 2 | **go away** | past | six brothers |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | six brothers *not said here* | brides |  |  |  | for flowers *= flower* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bride=Theme for themselves=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **not** **come** | present | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **look** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for flowers *= flower* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=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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