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title: They all three left the room; and in a few minutes the two eldest re… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They all three left the room; and in a few minutes the two eldest returned, bringing with them the linen that had been spun by their chosen wives. Who acts: brothers, two, chosen wives. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 15

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They all three left the room; and in a few minutes the two eldest returned, bringing with them the linen that had been spun by their chosen wives.

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**Who acts:** brothers, two, chosen wives · **What happens:** leave, return, bring, spin, choose · **To what, where:** room, linen

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, two, chosen wives), 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:pg641:36:15
# text = They all three left the room; and in a few minutes the two eldest returned, bringing with them the linen that had been spun by their chosen wives.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	_
15	eldest	eld	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | brothers *= brother* | the room |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | participle | the two |  |  |  | minute | eld *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | gerund | the two *not said here* | the linen |  |  |  | with brothers *= brother* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent linen=Theme |
| 4 | **spin** | past · perfect · passive | brothers's chosen wives | the linen |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 5 | **choose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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