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title: The king gladly gave his consent, and ordered the lists to be made r… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king gladly gave his consent, and ordered the lists to be made ready, never doubting that two great champions would be eager for such a chance of adding to their fame. Who acts: king, two great champions, chance. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13,
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 14

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The king gladly gave his consent, and ordered the lists to be made ready, never doubting that two great champions would be eager for such a chance of adding to their fame.

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**Who acts:** king, two great champions, chance · **What happens:** give, order, make, not doubt, be, add · **To what, where:** consent, lists

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, two great champions, chance), 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:pg3282:13:14
# text = The king gladly gave his consent, and ordered the lists to be made ready, never doubting that two great champions would be eager for such a chance of adding to their fame.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lists	list	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
15	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	doubting	doubt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	champions	champion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	29	det:predet	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	adding	add	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the king | king's consent |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme |
| 2 | **order** | past |  | the lists |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent list=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 4 | **not** **doubt** | gerund | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | would | two great champions |  |  |  |  | for such chance; eager *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | such chance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to champions's fame | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to fame=Co-Patient |
| 7 | **consent** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom consent «communication 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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