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title: On the morning after this happened, the younger brother took out the… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On the morning after this happened, the younger brother took out the knife to look at it, and he was grieved to find it all brown with rust. Who acts: this, younger brother. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 33

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On the morning after this happened, the younger brother took out the knife to look at it, and he was grieved to find it all brown with rust.

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**Who acts:** this, younger brother · **What happens:** happen, take out, look, grieve, find · **To what, where:** morning, knife, brother

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, younger brother), 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:pg7439:26:33
# text = On the morning after this happened, the younger brother took out the knife to look at it, and he was grieved to find it all brown with rust.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
6	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	rust	rust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | this | the morning *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take out** | past | the younger brother | the knife |  |  | morning |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | the younger brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at knife | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 4 | **grieve** | past · passive |  | brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | knife |  |  |  | brown *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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