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title: He could not hope to be more than king, and as long as he had his co… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He could not hope to be more than king, and as long as he had his cornet to provide him with soldiers he was secure against his enemies. Who acts: Jack. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 94

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He could not hope to be more than king, and as long as he had his cornet to provide him with soldiers he was secure against his enemies.

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**Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** not hope, be, have, provide · **To what, where:** Jack, soldiers

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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:pg3027:20:94
# text = He could not hope to be more than king, and as long as he had his cornet to provide him with soldiers he was secure against his enemies.
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	hope	hope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	obj	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	cornet	cornet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	secure	secure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	against	against	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hope** | could | Jack |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | than king; more *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **provide** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* |  | Jack |  |  | with soldiers | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with soldier=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | Jack | soldiers *not said here* |  |  |  | against Jack's enemies; secure *property* | tree rules |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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