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title: They had all learnt music from the same master, and they determined… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They had all learnt music from the same master, and they determined to stick together and to seek their fortune in foreign lands. Who acts: musicians. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 2

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They had all learnt music from the same master, and they determined to stick together and to seek their fortune in foreign lands.

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**Who acts:** musicians · **What happens:** learn, determine, stick together, seek · **To what, where:** music, same master, fortune, foreign lands

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (musicians), 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:pg7277:55:2
# text = They had all learnt music from the same master, and they determined to stick together and to seek their fortune in foreign lands.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	learnt	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past · perfect | musicians *= musician* | music |  | the same master |  | all *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent music=Topic from master=Source |
| 2 | **determine** | past | musicians *= musician* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stick together** | to-infinitive | musicians *= musician* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive | musicians *= musician* *not said here* | musicians's fortune |  | foreign lands |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme in land=Location |

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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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