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title: After his brothers had thus successfully maimed and disfigured him f… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After his brothers had thus successfully maimed and disfigured him for life, they left him groaning on the ground and continued their journey without him. Who acts: brothers, Ferko. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 22

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After his brothers had thus successfully maimed and disfigured him for life, they left him groaning on the ground and continued their journey without him.

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**Who acts:** brothers, Ferko · **What happens:** maim, disfigure, leave, groan, continue, journey · **To what, where:** Ferko, ground, journey

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, Ferko), 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:pg640:14:22
# text = After his brothers had thus successfully maimed and disfigured him for life, they left him groaning on the ground and continued their journey without him.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	successfully	successfully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	maimed	maim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	disfigured	disfigure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	groaning	groan	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	without	without	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **maim** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  | after Ferko's brothers | successfully, thus *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **disfigure** | past |  | Ferko |  |  |  | for life | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | past | brothers *= brother* | Ferko |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **groan** | gerund | Ferko *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location |
| 5 | **continue** | past | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | brothers's journey |  |  |  | without Ferko | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme |
| 6 | **journey** |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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