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title: In the same village there lived three brothers, who were all determi… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the same village there lived three brothers, who were all determined to kill the mischievous hawk. Who acts: three brothers. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 45

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In the same village there lived three brothers, who were all determined to kill the mischievous hawk.

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**Who acts:** three brothers · **What happens:** live, be, kill · **To what, where:** three brothers, same village, mischievous hawk

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three brothers), 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:pg640:24:45
# text = In the same village there lived three brothers, who were all determined to kill the mischievous hawk.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | three brothers |  | the same village; there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme brother=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | three brothers |  |  |  |  | all, determined *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **kill** | to-infinitive | three brothers *not said here* | the mischievous hawk |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hawk=Theme |

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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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