--- title: Little did he guess that Geirald had done all he could to persuade R… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Little did he guess that Geirald had done all he could to persuade Rosald to steal secretly out of the castle during the night, “for,” said he, “I don’t believe they are pages at all, but well-proved knights, and how can we, so young and untried, stand up against them?” Who acts: king, Geirald, cham --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/13/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/13/) / 15 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 15 Little did he guess that Geirald had done all he could to persuade Rosald to steal secretly out of the castle during the night, “for,” said he, “I don’t believe they are pages at all, but well-proved knights, and how can we, so young and untried, stand up against them?” **Who acts:** king, Geirald, champions · **What happens:** guess, do, persuade, steal, say, not believe · **To what, where:** all, Rosald, castle, pages, knights · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, Geirald, champions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3282:13:15 # text = Little did he guess that Geirald had done all he could to persuade Rosald to steal secretly out of the castle during the night, “for,” said he, “I don’t believe they are pages at all, but well-proved knights, and how can we, so young and untried, stand up against them?” 1 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 guess guess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 Geirald Geirald PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 obj _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 persuade persuade VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 14 Rosald Rosald PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 steal steal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 17 secretly secretly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 out out ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 during during ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 “ " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 for for SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ” " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 30 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 “ " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 36 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 ccomp _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 pages page NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 ccomp _ _ 41 at at ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 but but CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 47 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 proved prove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 parataxis _ _ 48 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 51 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 52 advmod _ _ 52 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 conj _ _ 53 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 so so ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 56 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 untried untried ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 60 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 61 up up ADP RP _ 60 compound:prt _ _ 62 against against ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 63 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 60 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 65 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guess** | past · do-support | king | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **do** | past · perfect | Geirald | all | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | | 3 | **persuade** | could | king | Rosald | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rosald=Patient | | 4 | **steal** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | | | the castle | night | secretly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out castle=Location | | 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | king | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **believe** *in a quote* | present · do-support | king | | | all | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | champions *= champion* | pages | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **prove** *in a quote* | participle | | knights | | | | well *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Theme | | 9 | **stand up** *in a quote* | infinitive | king *not said here* | | | | | against champions *= champion* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against they=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/13/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/13/16/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/13/)