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title: And turning to the two wicked brothers he said, ‘Suggest something f… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And turning to the two wicked brothers he said, ‘Suggest something for him to do; no matter how difficult, he must succeed in it or die.’ Who acts: Ferko. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 59

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And turning to the two wicked brothers he said, ‘Suggest something for him to do; no matter how difficult, he must succeed in it or die.’

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**Who acts:** Ferko · **What happens:** turn, say, suggest, do, succeed, die · **To what, where:** something, matter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg640:14:59
# text = And turning to the two wicked brothers he said, ‘Suggest something for him to do; no matter how difficult, he must succeed in it or die.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Suggest	suggest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
13	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the two wicked brothers *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to brother=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ferko |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | infinitive |  | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | Ferko |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **succeed** | must | Ferko |  |  | matter |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in it=Eventuality |
| 6 | **die** | infinitive | Ferko *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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