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title: And the two brothers embraced each other, and the elder asked forgiv… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the two brothers embraced each other, and the elder asked forgiveness for his wicked blow; and they went back to the palace together, and were never parted any more. Who acts: two brothers, elder, sinews, brother. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 121

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And the two brothers embraced each other, and the elder asked forgiveness for his wicked blow; and they went back to the palace together, and were never parted any more.

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**Who acts:** two brothers, elder, sinews, brother · **What happens:** embrace, ask, go back, not part, blow · **To what, where:** each, forgiveness

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two brothers, elder, sinews, 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:pg5615:23:121
# text = And the two brothers embraced each other, and the elder asked forgiveness for his wicked blow; and they went back to the palace together, and were never parted any more.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	5	obj	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	together	together	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	parted	part	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
32	any	any	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embrace** | past | the two brothers | each |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the elder | forgiveness |  |  |  | for brother's wicked blow | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Recipient |
| 3 | **go back** | past | sinews *= sinew* |  |  |  |  | to the palace *result*; together *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result |
| 4 | **not** **part** | past · passive | sinews *= sinew* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **blow** |  | brother |  |  |  |  |  | nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=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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