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title: But the two brothers had grown quite green with envy, and only decla… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the two brothers had grown quite green with envy, and only declared the more that Ferko was nothing but a wicked magician. Who acts: two brothers, 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 cl
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 84

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But the two brothers had grown quite green with envy, and only declared the more that Ferko was nothing but a wicked magician.

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**Who acts:** two brothers, Ferko · **What happens:** grow, declare, be · **To what, where:** nothing

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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 (two 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:pg640:14:84
# text = But the two brothers had grown quite green with envy, and only declared the more that Ferko was nothing but a wicked magician.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	advcl	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · perfect | the two brothers |  |  |  |  | green *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the two brothers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Ferko | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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