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title: The elder brother, who had eaten the Yellow Bird’s head, travelled a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The elder brother, who had eaten the Yellow Bird’s head, travelled a long way without meeting with any particular adventure, until at last he reached a large city in Asia, which was all in an uproar over the choosing of a new Emir. Who acts: elder brother, brother, Asia, uproar. A sentence of «The G
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 60

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The elder brother, who had eaten the Yellow Bird’s head, travelled a long way without meeting with any particular adventure, until at last he reached a large city in Asia, which was all in an uproar over the choosing of a new Emir.

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**Who acts:** elder brother, brother, Asia, uproar · **What happens:** eat, travel, meet, reach, be, choose · **To what, where:** head, long way, large city, last, uproar

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder brother, brother, Asia, uproar), 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:pg7277:9:60
# text = The elder brother, who had eaten the Yellow Bird’s head, travelled a long way without meeting with any particular adventure, until at last he reached a large city in Asia, which was all in an uproar over the choosing of a new Emir.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
38	all	all	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	uproar	uproar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
42	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	acl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	Emir	Emir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · perfect | the elder brother | the Yellow Bird's head |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 2 | **travel** | past | the elder brother | a long way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |
| 3 | **meet** | gerund | the elder brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with any particular adventure | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with adventure=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **reach** | past | brother | a large city |  | last |  | in Asia | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent city=Theme at last=Asset |
| 5 | **is** | past | Asia |  |  | a uproar |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **choose** | gerund | a uproar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a new Emir | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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