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title: He saw hanging from its battlements many heads, but it had not the l… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw hanging from its battlements many heads, but it had not the least effect upon him that these were heads of men of rank; he listened to no advice about laying aside his fancy, but rode up to the gate and on into the heart of the city. Who acts: citadel, earth. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Bo
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 93

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He saw hanging from its battlements many heads, but it had not the least effect upon him that these were heads of men of rank; he listened to no advice about laying aside his fancy, but rode up to the gate and on into the heart of the city.

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**Who acts:** citadel, earth · **What happens:** see, hang, have, be, listen, lay · **To what, where:** battlements, least effect, heads, gate

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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 (citadel, earth), 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:pg3282:1:93
# text = He saw hanging from its battlements many heads, but it had not the least effect upon him that these were heads of men of rank; he listened to no advice about laying aside his fancy, but rode up to the gate and on into the heart of the city.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	battlements	battlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
35	aside	aside	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
46	on	on	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
47	into	into	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | citadel |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hang** | gerund | citadel *not said here* |  |  | earth's battlements and many heads |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | earth | the least effect |  |  |  | upon citadel | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | this heads |  |  |  | of men of rank | tree rules |
| 5 | **listen** | past | citadel |  |  |  |  | to no advice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to advice=Theme |
| 6 | **lay** | gerund | citadel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aside citadel's fancy | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **ride up** | past |  |  |  | the gate |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to gate=Trajectory |
| 8 | **fancy** |  | citadel |  |  |  |  |  | nom fancy «cognition 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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