--- title: Indeed, they soon became so friendly that she vowed she would marry… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Indeed, they soon became so friendly that she vowed she would marry no one else, and confided to him that in three days her father would be off to the wars, leaving his sword in her room. Who acts: servants, princess, father, wars. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/66/) [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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/) / 66 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 66 Indeed, they soon became so friendly that she vowed she would marry no one else, and confided to him that in three days her father would be off to the wars, leaving his sword in her room. **Who acts:** servants, princess, father, wars · **What happens:** become, vow, marry, confide, be, leave · **To what, where:** one, prince, sword, room This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, princess, father, wars), 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:pg3282:18:66 # text = Indeed, they soon became so friendly that she vowed she would marry no one else, and confided to him that in three days her father would be off to the wars, leaving his sword in her room. 1 Indeed indeed ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 5 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 vowed vow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 14 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 15 det _ _ 15 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 else else ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 confided confide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 28 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 30 off off ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 wars war NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 leaving leave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | servants *= servant* | | | | | friendly, indeed, soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **vow** | past | princess | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **marry** | would | princess | no one | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 4 | **confide** *speech: other* | past | servants *= servant* *not said here* | | prince | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | would | princess's father | | | | day | to the wars | tree rules | | 6 | **leave** | gerund | the wars *not said here* | prince's sword | | princess's room | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in room=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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/67/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/)