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title: They were cousins as well as neighbours, and both were under the pro… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They were cousins as well as neighbours, and both were under the protection of the fairies; though it is only fair to say that the fairies did not love them half so well as their wives did. Who acts: kings, both, it, fairies. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 6

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They were cousins as well as neighbours, and both were under the protection of the fairies; though it is only fair to say that the fairies did not love them half so well as their wives did.

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**Who acts:** kings, both, it, fairies, wives · **What happens:** be, say, not love, do · **To what, where:** cousins, protection, kings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kings, both, it, fairies), 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:pg640:11:6
# text = They were cousins as well as neighbours, and both were under the protection of the fairies; though it is only fair to say that the fairies did not love them half so well as their wives did.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	7	cc	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
7	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	csubj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
29	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	31	advmod	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | kings *= king* | cousins as neighbours and the protection |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | both |  |  | the protection |  | of the fairies | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **love** | past · do-support | the fairies | kings *= king* |  |  |  | half, well *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 6 | **do** | past | kings's wives |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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