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title: They will go out into the world and rule over poultry yards of their… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They will go out into the world and rule over poultry yards of their own; but this poor little fellow will always have to stay at home with his mother.’ Who acts: brothers, little fellow. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 9

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They will go out into the world and rule over poultry yards of their own; but this poor little fellow will always have to stay at home with his mother.’

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**Who acts:** brothers, little fellow · **What happens:** go out, have, stay · **To what, where:** world, home

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, little fellow), 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:pg7277:6:9
# text = They will go out into the world and rule over poultry yards of their own; but this poor little fellow will always have to stay at home with his mother.’
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	poultry	poultry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
19	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | future | brothers *= brother* |  |  | the world and rule over poultry yards of brothers's own |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | future | this little fellow |  |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stay** | to-infinitive | this little fellow *not said here* |  |  | home |  | with fellow's mother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=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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