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title: Then our two friends began each to accuse the other, and both looked… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then our two friends began each to accuse the other, and both looked sorrowfully at the place where their treasure had fallen in. Who acts: two friends, both, treasure, friends. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 85

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Then our two friends began each to accuse the other, and both looked sorrowfully at the place where their treasure had fallen in.

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**Who acts:** two friends, both, treasure, friends · **What happens:** begin, accuse, look, fall in, treasure · **To what, where:** each, other

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two friends, both, treasure, friends), 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:pg7277:8:85
# text = Then our two friends began each to accuse the other, and both looked sorrowfully at the place where their treasure had fallen in.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	accuse	accuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | our two friends | each |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **accuse** | to-infinitive | our two friends *not said here* | the other |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent other=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | past | both |  |  |  |  | at the place; sorrowfully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at place=Theme |
| 4 | **fall in** | past · perfect | friends's treasure |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **treasure** |  | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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