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title: In all the waggon-loads there was not one piece of linen the tenth p… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In all the waggon-loads there was not one piece of linen the tenth part of which would go through the ring, and the two elder brothers, who had at first sneered at their youngest brother for returning with no baggage, began to feel rather small. Who acts: tenth part, two elder brothers. A sentence o
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 92

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In all the waggon-loads there was not one piece of linen the tenth part of which would go through the ring, and the two elder brothers, who had at first sneered at their youngest brother for returning with no baggage, began to feel rather small.

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**Who acts:** tenth part, two elder brothers · **What happens:** go, have, sneer, return, begin, feel · **To what, where:** ring, waggon loads

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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 (tenth part, 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:pg7277:29:92
# text = In all the waggon-loads there was not one piece of linen the tenth part of which would go through the ring, and the two elder brothers, who had at first sneered at their youngest brother for returning with no baggage, began to feel rather small.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	waggon	waggon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	tenth	tenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
28	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	advmod	_	_
35	sneered	sneer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	xcomp	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	amod	_	_
39	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
41	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	44	det	_	_
44	baggage	baggage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
46	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
49	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	46	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 | **go** | would | the tenth part |  |  | the ring |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through ring=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | the two elder brothers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sneer** | participle | the two elder brothers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at brothers's youngest brother; first *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **return** | gerund | the two elder brothers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with no baggage | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **begin** | past |  |  |  | all waggon loads |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **feel** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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