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title: Her brothers were not less delighted than she to see their little si… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her brothers were not less delighted than she to see their little sister again, but their joy did not last long. Who acts: brothers, maiden, joy. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 37

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Her brothers were not less delighted than she to see their little sister again, but their joy did not last long.

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**Who acts:** brothers, maiden, joy · **What happens:** be, see, not last, joy · **To what, where:** little sister

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, maiden, joy), 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:pg640:4:37
# text = Her brothers were not less delighted than she to see their little sister again, but their joy did not last long.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
22	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | maiden's brothers |  |  |  |  | delighted, less *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | maiden | brothers's little sister |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **last** | past · do-support | brothers's joy |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **joy** |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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