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title: ‘I have a brother,’ he answered, ‘who lives away in the East, and he… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I have a brother,’ he answered, ‘who lives away in the East, and he has twelve daughters; go and marry them.’ Who acts: I, twelfth. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 14

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‘I have a brother,’ he answered, ‘who lives away in the East, and he has twelve daughters; go and marry them.’

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**Who acts:** I, twelfth · **What happens:** have, answer, live away, go, marry · **To what, where:** brother, East, twelve daughters, daughters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, twelfth), 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:pg641:41:14
# text = ‘I have a brother,’ he answered, ‘who lives away in the East, and he has twelve daughters; go and marry them.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	marry	marry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | a brother |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | twelfth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live away** | present |  |  |  | the East |  | away *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in east=Location |
| 4 | **have** | present | twelfth | twelve daughters |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **marry** | infinitive |  | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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