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title: The final tourney should be fought; Geirald and Rosald should meet s… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The final tourney should be fought; Geirald and Rosald should meet singly two knights of the king’s court, and he who could unhorse his foe should be master of herself and of her kingdom. Who acts: Geirald, foe. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, with
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 47

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The final tourney should be fought; Geirald and Rosald should meet singly two knights of the king’s court, and he who could unhorse his foe should be master of herself and of her kingdom.

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**Who acts:** Geirald, foe · **What happens:** fight, meet, unhorse, be · **To what, where:** final tourney, two knights, master

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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 (Geirald, foe), 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:pg3282:13:47
# text = The final tourney should be fought; Geirald and Rosald should meet singly two knights of the king’s court, and he who could unhorse his foe should be master of herself and of her kingdom.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tourney	tourney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	fought	fight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
13	singly	singly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	unhorse	unhorse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
31	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | should · passive |  | the final tourney |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **meet** | should | Geirald and Rosald | two knights of the king's court |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **unhorse** | could | Geirald |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | should | Geirald's foe | master |  |  |  | of crowd | tree rules |

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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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