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title: The tourney was fought, and in spite of Geirald’s fears Rosald manag… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The tourney was fought, and in spite of Geirald’s fears Rosald managed to hang back to make attacks which were never meant to succeed, and to allow strokes which he could easily have parried to attain their end. Who acts: Rosald, Geirald. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brow
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 41

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The tourney was fought, and in spite of Geirald’s fears Rosald managed to hang back to make attacks which were never meant to succeed, and to allow strokes which he could easily have parried to attain their end.

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**Who acts:** Rosald, Geirald · **What happens:** fight, manage, hang back, make, not mean, succeed · **To what, where:** tourney, spite, attacks, strokes, end, fears

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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 (Rosald, Geirald), 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:pg3282:13:41
# text = The tourney was fought, and in spite of Geirald’s fears Rosald managed to hang back to make attacks which were never meant to succeed, and to allow strokes which he could easily have parried to attain their end.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tourney	tourney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	fought	fight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
20	attacks	attack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
31	strokes	stroke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obj	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux	_	_
37	parried	parry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	attain	attain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past · passive |  | the tourney |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **manage** | past |  |  |  | spite of Geirald's fears |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **hang back** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | attacks |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attack=Product |
| 5 | **not** **mean** | past · passive |  | attacks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **succeed** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **allow** | to-infinitive |  | strokes |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stroke=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **parry** | could · perfect | Rosald | strokes |  |  |  | easily *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **attain** | to-infinitive | Rosald *not said here* | strokes's end |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme |
| 10 | **spite** |  |  | Geirald's fears |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 11 | **fear** |  | Geirald |  |  |  |  |  | nom fear «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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