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title: That was why I ordered the combat between you, though your faith to… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That was why I ordered the combat between you, though your faith to your word prevented my plan being successful, and I had to try another. Who acts: That, I, plan, your. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 57

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That was why I ordered the combat between you, though your faith to your word prevented my plan being successful, and I had to try another.

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**Who acts:** That, I, plan, your, my · **What happens:** be, order, prevent, have, try, word · **To what, where:** combat, word, another

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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 (That, I, plan, your), 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:pg3282:13:57
# text = That was why I ordered the combat between you, though your faith to your word prevented my plan being successful, and I had to try another.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	though	though	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
21	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | That |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **order** | past | I | the combat |  |  |  | between you; though your faith to your word | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent combat=Theme |
| 3 | **prevent** | participle |  | your word *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | my plan |  |  |  |  | successful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **try** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | another |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Eventuality |
| 7 | **word** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **plan** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition 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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