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title: On the long road beyond there dwells a lion-king, alla if other beas… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the long road beyond there dwells a lion-king, alla if other beasts did not fear him they would ravage the whole country and let no one pass. Who acts: other beasts, beasts. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 108

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On the long road beyond there dwells a lion-king, alla if other beasts did not fear him they would ravage the whole country and let no one pass.

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**Who acts:** other beasts, beasts · **What happens:** dwell, not fear, ravage, let · **To what, where:** lion king, long road, prince, whole country, one pass

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other beasts, beasts), 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:pg3282:3:108
# text = On the long road beyond there dwells a lion-king, alla if other beasts did not fear him they would ravage the whole country and let no one pass.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	dwells	dwell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	alla	alla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	ravage	ravage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
30	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | present |  | a lion king and alla |  | the long road; there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location |
| 2 | **not** **fear** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | other beasts | prince |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **ravage** | would | beasts *= beast* | the whole country |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | beasts *= beast* *not said here* | no one pass |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=Theme |

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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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