--- title: He could not expect his daughter to be lucky enough to dream rightly… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He could not expect his daughter to be lucky enough to dream rightly a second time, and as a plague had been raging through the country, and had carried off many of his soldiers, his army was even weaker than before. Who acts: heart, army. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The C --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/84/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/) / 84 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 84 He could not expect his daughter to be lucky enough to dream rightly a second time, and as a plague had been raging through the country, and had carried off many of his soldiers, his army was even weaker than before. **Who acts:** heart, army · **What happens:** not expect, be, dream, rage, carry off · **To what, where:** daughter, country, many This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, army), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:7:84 # text = He could not expect his daughter to be lucky enough to dream rightly a second time, and as a plague had been raging through the country, and had carried off many of his soldiers, his army was even weaker than before. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 expect expect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 9 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 10 enough enough ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 dream dream VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 13 rightly rightly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 16 amod _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 plague plague NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 aux _ _ 24 raging rage VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 25 through through ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 parataxis _ _ 32 off off ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 even even ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 weaker weak ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 conj _ _ 43 than than ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 before before ADV RB _ 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **expect** | could | heart | heart's daughter | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | heart *not said here* | | | | | enough, lucky *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **dream** | to-infinitive | heart *not said here* | | | | time | rightly *property* | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **rage** | past · perfect · progressive | heart *not said here* | | | the country | | as a plague | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through country=Location | | 5 | **carry off** | past · perfect | | many of heart's soldiers | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | heart's army | | | | | weak *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/85/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/)