--- title: The two brothers were delighted, for they thought they had now got r… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The two brothers were delighted, for they thought they had now got rid of Ferko for ever. Who acts: two brothers, brothers. 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 clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/62/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/) / 62 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 62 The two brothers were delighted, for they thought they had now got rid of Ferko for ever. **Who acts:** two brothers, brothers · **What happens:** be, think, get · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (two brothers, brothers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:14:62 # text = The two brothers were delighted, for they thought they had now got rid of Ferko for ever. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 for for SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 13 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 14 rid rid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Ferko Ferko PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the two brothers | | | | | delighted *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | brothers *= brother* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **get** | past · perfect | brothers *= brother* | | | | now | of Ferko; rid *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme of ferko=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/63/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/)