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title: So the old lord embraced his son, and promised that he should inheri… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the old lord embraced his son, and promised that he should inherit all his possessions, and he put to death the two elder ones, who had deceived him and had tried to slay their own brother. Who acts: old lord, lord, two elder ones. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden B
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 94

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So the old lord embraced his son, and promised that he should inherit all his possessions, and he put to death the two elder ones, who had deceived him and had tried to slay their own brother.

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**Who acts:** old lord, lord, two elder ones · **What happens:** embrace, promise, inherit, put, deceive, try · **To what, where:** son, possessions, two elder ones, lord, own brother

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old lord, lord, two elder ones), 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:pg7277:21:94
# text = So the old lord embraced his son, and promised that he should inherit all his possessions, and he put to death the two elder ones, who had deceived him and had tried to slay their own brother.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	inherit	inherit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	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	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embrace** | past | the old lord | lord's son |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the old lord *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **inherit** *not said to happen* | should | lord | lord's possessions |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | past | lord | the two elder ones |  |  |  | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal |
| 5 | **deceive** | past · perfect | the two elder ones | lord |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 6 | **try** | past · perfect | the two elder ones *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **slay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the two elder ones *not said here* | possessions's own brother |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |
| 8 | **possess** |  | lord |  |  |  |  |  | nom possession «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 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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