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title: To their disappointment their own land was so well governed that not… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To their disappointment their own land was so well governed that nothing out of the common was very likely to happen, but directly they crossed the border into another kingdom all seemed lawlessness and confusion. Who acts: own land, nothing, adventures. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andre
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 85

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To their disappointment their own land was so well governed that nothing out of the common was very likely to happen, but directly they crossed the border into another kingdom all seemed lawlessness and confusion.

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**Who acts:** own land, nothing, adventures · **What happens:** be, happen, cross, seem, disappoint · **To what, where:** border, kingdom, lawlessness

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (own land, nothing, adventures), 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:pg3282:12:85
# text = To their disappointment their own land was so well governed that nothing out of the common was very likely to happen, but directly they crossed the border into another kingdom all seemed lawlessness and confusion.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	governed	govern	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	all	all	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
34	lawlessness	lawlessness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | adventures's own land *not said here* |  |  |  |  | govern, well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | nothing |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **happen** | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cross** | past | adventures *= adventure* | the border |  | another kingdom |  | directly *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent border=Patient into kingdom=Recipient |
| 5 | **seem** | past | adventures's own land *not said here* | lawlessness and confusion |  |  |  | all *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lawlessness=Attribute |
| 6 | **disappoint** |  | adventures *= adventure* |  |  |  |  |  | nom disappointment «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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