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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 101

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The king was, of course, obliged to take some notice of this brave deed, and as a reward made him one of his own attendants.

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**Who acts:** reward · **What happens:** oblige, take, make, notice · **To what, where:** king, notice, one, brave deed

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reward), 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:pg3282:33:101
# text = The king was, of course, obliged to take some notice of this brave deed, and as a reward made him one of his own attendants.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	8	advmod	_	_
6	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | the king |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | some notice of this brave deed |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | a reward | one of king's own attendants | king |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary one=Product |
| 4 | **notice** |  |  | this brave deed |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication 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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