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title: This plan did not please him; he said: ‘It is not right to lay a kin… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This plan did not please him; he said: ‘It is not right to lay a kingdom waste and to destroy a palace so that I may attain my desire. Who acts: plan, Quimus, It, I. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 68

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This plan did not please him; he said: ‘It is not right to lay a kingdom waste and to destroy a palace so that I may attain my desire.

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**Who acts:** plan, Quimus, It, I, my · **What happens:** not please, say, not be, lay, destroy, attain · **To what, where:** Quimus, kingdom waste, palace, desire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plan, Quimus, It, I), 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:pg3282:1:68
# text = This plan did not please him; he said: ‘It is not right to lay a kingdom waste and to destroy a palace so that I may attain my desire.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	csubj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	30	mark	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	attain	attain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **please** | past · do-support | this plan | Quimus |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Quimus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lay** | to-infinitive |  | a kingdom waste |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waste=Result |
| 5 | **destroy** | to-infinitive |  | a palace |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Patient |
| 6 | **attain** | may | I | my desire |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme |
| 7 | **desire** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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