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title: It happened soon after that the second brother returned from his wan… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It happened soon after that the second brother returned from his wanderings and came to the cross-roads where the three birches grew. Who acts: It, second brother, three birches, master. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale),
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 116

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It happened soon after that the second brother returned from his wanderings and came to the cross-roads where the three birches grew.

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**Who acts:** It, second brother, three birches, master · **What happens:** happen, return, come, grow, wander · **To what, where:** wanderings, cross-roads

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, second brother, three birches, master), 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:pg641:5:116
# text = It happened soon after that the second brother returned from his wanderings and came to the cross-roads where the three birches grew.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wanderings	wandering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cross-roads	cross-road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	birches	birch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | It |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | past | the second brother |  |  | master's wanderings |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from wandering=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **come** | past |  |  |  | the cross-roads |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cross-road=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **grow** | past | the three birches |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wander** |  | master |  |  |  |  |  | nom wandering «act 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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