--- title: His elder brothers, who had in vain gone in pursuit of the thief of… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: His elder brothers, who had in vain gone in pursuit of the thief of the golden apples, were furious over their younger brother’s good fortune, and plotted and planned how they were to kill him. Who acts: elder brothers, brothers. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermai --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/91/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Golden Mermaid](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/) / 91 # The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 91 His elder brothers, who had in vain gone in pursuit of the thief of the golden apples, were furious over their younger brother’s good fortune, and plotted and planned how they were to kill him. **Who acts:** elder brothers, brothers · **What happens:** go, be, plot, plan, kill, pursue · **To what, where:** pursuit, good fortune, emperor, thief This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder brothers, brothers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:52:91 # text = His elder brothers, who had in vain gone in pursuit of the thief of the golden apples, were furious over their younger brother’s good fortune, and plotted and planned how they were to kill him. 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 elder elder NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 7 in in SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 vain vain ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 acl:relcl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 pursuit pursuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 thief thief NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 20 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 furious furious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 22 over over ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 amod _ _ 25 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ’s 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 plotted plot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 planned plan VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ _ 34 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · perfect | emperor's elder brothers | | | pursuit of the thief of the golden apples | | vain *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pursuit=Location | | 2 | **is** | past | emperor's elder brothers | | | brothers's younger brother's good fortune | | furious *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **plot** | participle | emperor's elder brothers *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **plan** | participle | emperor's elder brothers *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **kill** | past | brothers *= brother* | emperor | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **pursue** | | | the thief of the golden apples | | | | | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/92/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Mermaid](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/)