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title: They had set out to meet him, and would try to take the magic water… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They had set out to meet him, and would try to take the magic water from him, and then claim as their reward the government of the emperor. Who acts: brothers. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 34

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They had set out to meet him, and would try to take the magic water from him, and then claim as their reward the government of the emperor.

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**Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** set out, meet, try, take, claim, reward · **To what, where:** brothers, Birscha, magic water

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg641:22:34
# text = They had set out to meet him, and would try to take the magic water from him, and then claim as their reward the government of the emperor.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	claim	claim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | past · perfect · passive |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive |  | Birscha |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **try** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the magic water |  |  |  | from Birscha | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from he=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **claim** *speech: other* | present |  |  |  |  | then | as brothers's reward | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **reward** |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | nom reward «event 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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