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title: And my brothers were filled with envy, and left me to drown in a bro… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And my brothers were filled with envy, and left me to drown in a brook, but I was saved by a fish who showed me how to get out. Who acts: fish. 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 154

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And my brothers were filled with envy, and left me to drown in a brook, but I was saved by a fish who showed me how to get out.

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**Who acts:** fish · **What happens:** fill, leave, drown, save, show, get out · **To what, where:** brothers, me, brook, I · **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 (fish), 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:pg641:41:154
# text = And my brothers were filled with envy, and left me to drown in a brook, but I was saved by a fish who showed me how to get out.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
31	out	out	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past · passive |  | my brothers |  |  |  | with envy | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with envy=Instrument |
| 2 | **leave** | past |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **drown** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | a brook |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **save** | past · passive | a fish | I |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 5 | **show** | past | a fish |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **get out** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: 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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