--- title: Thanks to what he had learned from the failure of the rest, he manag… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Thanks to what he had learned from the failure of the rest, he managed to grasp one little rough projection after another, till at last, to the envy of his friends, he stood on the sill of the princess’s window. Who acts: prince, rest. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown F --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/25/41/) [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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/25/) / 41 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 41 Thanks to what he had learned from the failure of the rest, he managed to grasp one little rough projection after another, till at last, to the envy of his friends, he stood on the sill of the princess’s window. **Who acts:** prince, rest · **What happens:** learn, manage, grasp, stand, fail, envy · **To what, where:** failure, Thanks, one little rough projection, sill, friends This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, rest), 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:pg3282:25:41 # text = Thanks to what he had learned from the failure of the rest, he managed to grasp one little rough projection after another, till at last, to the envy of his friends, he stood on the sill of the princess’s window. 1 Thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 1 nmod _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 failure failure NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 managed manage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 grasp grasp VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 19 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 projection projection NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 22 after after ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 till till ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 envy envy NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 sill sill NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’s 's PART POS _ 43 case _ _ 45 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | past · perfect | prince | | | the failure of the rest | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from failure=Source | | 2 | **manage** | past | prince | Thanks | | | | | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **grasp** | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* | one little rough projection | | | after another | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer projection=Stimulus | | 4 | **stand** | past | prince | | | the sill of the princess's window | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sill=Location | | 5 | **fail** | | the rest | | | | | | nom failure «act intransitive»: of=agent | | 6 | **envy** | | | prince's friends | | | | | nom envy «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/25/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/25/42/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/25/)