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title: The eleven eldest went out with their father to field and forest, bu… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The eleven eldest went out with their father to field and forest, but Esben preferred to stay at home with his mother, and so he was never reckoned at all by the rest, but was a sort of outcast among them. Who acts: eleven, Esben, rest. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fa
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 6

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The eleven eldest went out with their father to field and forest, but Esben preferred to stay at home with his mother, and so he was never reckoned at all by the rest, but was a sort of outcast among them.

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**Who acts:** eleven, Esben, rest · **What happens:** go out, prefer, stay, not reckon, be · **To what, where:** home, man, all, sort

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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 (eleven, Esben, rest), 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:pg5615:28:6
# text = The eleven eldest went out with their father to field and forest, but Esben preferred to stay at home with his mother, and so he was never reckoned at all by the rest, but was a sort of outcast among them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	Esben	Esben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	preferred	prefer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	reckoned	reckon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	obl	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	outcast	outcast	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
43	among	among	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | the eleven |  |  |  |  | with Esben's father and field and forest; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with father=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **prefer** | past | Esben |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Esben *not said here* |  |  | home |  | with man's mother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
| 4 | **not** **reckon** | past · passive | the rest | man |  | all |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | a sort |  |  |  | of Esben | 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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