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title: However, the thought that he must certainly have been born to be a k… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the thought that he must certainly have been born to be a king supported him, and he bravely rode on. Who acts: thought, heart. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 67

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However, the thought that he must certainly have been born to be a king supported him, and he bravely rode on.

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**Who acts:** thought, heart · **What happens:** bear, be, support, ride on · **To what, where:** thought, king, heart

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, heart), 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:pg2435:34:67
# text = However, the thought that he must certainly have been born to be a king supported him, and he bravely rode on.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	_
16	supported	support	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | must · perfect · passive | the thought *not said here* | thought |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the thought *not said here* | a king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **support** | past | the thought | heart |  |  |  | however *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **ride on** | past | heart |  |  |  |  | bravely *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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