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title: Hereupon the three brothers, at one and the same moment, fell upon t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hereupon the three brothers, at one and the same moment, fell upon the idea of offering themselves as suitors for the princess. Who acts: Hereupon, idea. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 19

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Hereupon the three brothers, at one and the same moment, fell upon the idea of offering themselves as suitors for the princess.

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**Who acts:** Hereupon, idea · **What happens:** fall, offer · **To what, where:** idea, brothers

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hereupon, idea), 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:pg641:24:19
# text = Hereupon the three brothers, at one and the same moment, fell upon the idea of offering themselves as suitors for the princess.
1	Hereupon	Hereupon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	suitors	suitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Hereupon |  |  | the idea |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon idea=Location |
| 2 | **offer** | gerund | the idea *not said here* | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  | as suitors; for the princess *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme for princess=Goal |

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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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