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title: Wherever linen was to be bought, there the two elder brothers hasten… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherever linen was to be bought, there the two elder brothers hastened. Who acts: two elder brothers. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 76

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Wherever linen was to be bought, there the two elder brothers hastened.

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**Who acts:** two elder brothers · **What happens:** buy, hasten · **To what, where:** linen

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two elder brothers), 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:pg7277:29:76
# text = Wherever linen was to be bought, there the two elder brothers hastened.
1	Wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past · passive |  | linen |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **hasten** | participle | the two elder brothers |  |  | there |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 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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