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title: The other two brothers heard that Ciccu had become quite an importan… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The other two brothers heard that Ciccu had become quite an important person, and they grew envious, and thought how they could put him to shame. Who acts: other two brothers, Ciccu, brothers. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 20

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The other two brothers heard that Ciccu had become quite an important person, and they grew envious, and thought how they could put him to shame.

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**Who acts:** other two brothers, Ciccu, brothers · **What happens:** hear, become, grow, think, put, shame · **To what, where:** important person, Ciccu · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. 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, Ciccu, 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:pg5615:38:20
# text = The other two brothers heard that Ciccu had become quite an important person, and they grew envious, and thought how they could put him to shame.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
10	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	shame	shame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the other two brothers |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **become** | past · perfect | Ciccu | a important person |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | envious *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the other two brothers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **put** | could | brothers *= brother* |  | Ciccu |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
| 6 | **shame** | to-infinitive | brothers *= brother* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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