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title: But the other two were very uneasy, for they felt sure something mus… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the other two were very uneasy, for they felt sure something must be wrong, and the sooner they parted company with Ciccu the better. Who acts: other two, brothers, something. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 69

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But the other two were very uneasy, for they felt sure something must be wrong, and the sooner they parted company with Ciccu the better.

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**Who acts:** other two, brothers, something · **What happens:** be, feel, part · **To what, where:** company

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other two, brothers, something), 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:pg5615:37:69
# text = But the other two were very uneasy, for they felt sure something must be wrong, and the sooner they parted company with Ciccu the better.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	parted	part	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the other two |  |  |  |  | uneasy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | must | something |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **part** | past | brothers *= brother* | company |  |  |  | with Ciccu; soon *property* | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Patient |

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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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