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title: Ferko fell fast asleep, but the other two remained awake, and the el… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ferko fell fast asleep, but the other two remained awake, and the eldest said to the second brother, ‘What do you say to doing our brother Ferko some harm? Who acts: Ferko, other two, eldest, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, with its depende
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 9

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Ferko fell fast asleep, but the other two remained awake, and the eldest said to the second brother, ‘What do you say to doing our brother Ferko some harm?

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**Who acts:** Ferko, other two, eldest, you · **What happens:** fall, remain, say, do · **To what, where:** second brother, brother · **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, other two, eldest, you), 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:pg640:14:9
# text = Ferko fell fast asleep, but the other two remained awake, and the eldest said to the second brother, ‘What do you say to doing our brother Ferko some harm?
1	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
10	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
11	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
24	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	ccomp	_	_
29	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Ferko |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **remain** | participle | the other two |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle | the eldest |  | the second brother |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | gerund |  | our brother |  |  |  |  | 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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