--- title: They had left the city many miles behind them, when the king suddenl… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They had left the city many miles behind them, when the king suddenly discovered that he had forgotten his sword, and though all his attendants instantly offered theirs, he declared that he could fight with none but his own. Who acts: wars, king, attendants. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/70/) [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/) / 70 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 70 They had left the city many miles behind them, when the king suddenly discovered that he had forgotten his sword, and though all his attendants instantly offered theirs, he declared that he could fight with none but his own. **Who acts:** wars, king, attendants · **What happens:** leave, discover, forget, offer, declare, fight · **To what, where:** city, sword, wars 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 (wars, king, attendants), 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:pg3282:18:70 # text = They had left the city many miles behind them, when the king suddenly discovered that he had forgotten his sword, and though all his attendants instantly offered theirs, he declared that he could fight with none but his own. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 8 behind behind ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 discovered discover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 24 though though SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 27 det:predet _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 attendants attendant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 instantly instantly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 30 theirs their PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 37 obl _ _ 40 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past · perfect | wars *= war* | the city | | | | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent city=Theme mile=Attribute | | 2 | **discover** | past | the king | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **forget** | past · perfect | king | king's sword | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **offer** | past | king's attendants | wars *= war* | | | | instantly *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent their=Theme | | 5 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | king | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **fight** | could | king | | | | | with none | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with none=Co-Agent | 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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/71/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/)