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title: And so, because they had all been so clever, and so fond of each oth… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And so, because they had all been so clever, and so fond of each other, they were all laid in one grave. Who acts: Brothers. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 34

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And so, because they had all been so clever, and so fond of each other, they were all laid in one grave.

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**Who acts:** Brothers · **What happens:** have, be, lay · **To what, where:** Brothers, one grave

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg5615:8:34
# text = And so, because they had all been so clever, and so fond of each other, they were all laid in one grave.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	14	obl	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | participle | Brothers *= brother* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | all, clever *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Brothers *= brother* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of each | tree rules |
| 4 | **lay** | past · passive |  | Brothers *= brother* |  | one grave |  | all *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=Destination |

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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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