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title: This Sir Red became angry with the eleven brothers, because they wou… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This Sir Red became angry with the eleven brothers, because they would not always stand at attention for him, so he determined to avenge himself on them. Who acts: Red, brothers. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 40

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This Sir Red became angry with the eleven brothers, because they would not always stand at attention for him, so he determined to avenge himself on them.

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**Who acts:** Red, brothers · **What happens:** become, not stand, determine, avenge · **To what, where:** attention, Red

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Red, 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:pg5615:28:40
# text = This Sir Red became angry with the eleven brothers, because they would not always stand at attention for him, so he determined to avenge himself on them.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
16	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	avenge	avenge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Red  Sir |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **stand** | would | brothers *= brother* |  |  | attention |  | for Red; always *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at attention=Location |
| 3 | **determine** | past | Red |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **avenge** | to-infinitive | Red *not said here* | Red |  |  |  | on brothers *= brother* | tree rules |

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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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