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title: She had always kept up a close correspondence with her brother, and… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She had always kept up a close correspondence with her brother, and the accounts she heard of Prince Alphege made her long to become acquainted with so charming a nephew. Who acts: Queen, accounts. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, with its depende
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 81

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She had always kept up a close correspondence with her brother, and the accounts she heard of Prince Alphege made her long to become acquainted with so charming a nephew.

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**Who acts:** Queen, accounts · **What happens:** keep up, hear, make, become, charm · **To what, where:** close correspondence, accounts, nephew

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (Queen, accounts), 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:pg640:22:81
# text = She had always kept up a close correspondence with her brother, and the accounts she heard of Prince Alphege made her long to become acquainted with so charming a nephew.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	correspondence	correspondence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	Alphege	Alphege	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep up** | past · perfect | Queen | a close correspondence |  |  |  | with Queen's brother; always *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent correspondence=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Queen | the accounts *not said here* |  |  |  | of Prince | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer account=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make** | past | the accounts |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **become** | to-infinitive | the accounts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | acquainted *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **charm** | gerund | the accounts *not said here* | a nephew |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nephew=Experiencer |

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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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