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title: ‘I shall certainly not imitate my brother, who was foolish enough to… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I shall certainly not imitate my brother, who was foolish enough to bring back the Prince instead of reigning in his place,’ and he was as good as his word. Who acts: I, brother. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 110

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‘I shall certainly not imitate my brother, who was foolish enough to bring back the Prince instead of reigning in his place,’ and he was as good as his word.

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**Who acts:** I, brother · **What happens:** not imitate, be, bring back, reign, word · **To what, where:** brother, Prince, place

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, brother), 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:pg7277:19:110
# text = ‘I shall certainly not imitate my brother, who was foolish enough to bring back the Prince instead of reigning in his place,’ and he was as good as his word.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	imitate	imitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	21	mark	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	reigning	reign	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **imitate** | shall | I | my brother |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | my brother |  |  |  |  | enough, foolish *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring back** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  | the Prince |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument prince=Destination |
| 4 | **reign** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | brother's place |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | brother |  |  |  |  | as brother's word; good *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **word** |  | brother |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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