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title: The king, who was braver than they, and felt it needful to set them… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king, who was braver than they, and felt it needful to set them a good example besides, had never left his seat, and when at a new command of the princess the bear once more turned into a man, he was silent from astonishment, and a suspicion of the truth began to dawn on him. Who acts: king, man
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 36

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The king, who was braver than they, and felt it needful to set them a good example besides, had never left his seat, and when at a new command of the princess the bear once more turned into a man, he was silent from astonishment, and a suspicion of the truth began to dawn on him.

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**Who acts:** king, man, suspicion · **What happens:** be, feel, set, beside, not leave, turn · **To what, where:** courage, king, seat, bear, astonishment, dawn · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, man, suspicion), 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:pg3282:19:36
# text = The king, who was braver than they, and felt it needful to set them a good example besides, had never left his seat, and when at a new command of the princess the bear once more turned into a man, he was silent from astonishment, and a suspicion of the truth began to dawn on him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	braver	brave	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	needful	needful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	besides	beside	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	ccomp	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	58	advmod	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
39	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	41	advmod	_	_
40	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	41	advmod	_	_
41	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	_
42	into	into	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
48	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	parataxis	_	_
49	from	from	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
58	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	60	mark	_	_
60	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	xcomp	_	_
61	on	on	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | than king; brave *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | past | the king *not said here* | courage |  |  |  | needful *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **set** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | king |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme example=Destination |
| 4 | **beside** | present | the king |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **leave** | past · perfect | the king *not said here* | man's seat |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme |
| 6 | **turn** | participle |  | the bear *not said here* |  |  |  | into a man *result*; once *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into man=Result |
| 7 | **is** | past | man |  |  | astonishment |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **begin** | past | a suspicion of the truth | dawn on man |  | a new command of the princess and the bear |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 9 | **command** |  |  | the princess and the bear |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 10 | **suspect** |  |  | the truth |  |  |  |  | nom suspicion «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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