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title: How furious the king was when, at the next morning’s durbar, Nur Mah… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: How furious the king was when, at the next morning’s durbar, Nur Mahomed appeared before him fresh, alert and smiling as usual. Who acts: durbar. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 113

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How furious the king was when, at the next morning’s durbar, Nur Mahomed appeared before him fresh, alert and smiling as usual.

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**Who acts:** durbar · **What happens:** appear, smile

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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 (durbar), 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:pg3282:33:113
# text = How furious the king was when, at the next morning’s durbar, Nur Mahomed appeared before him fresh, alert and smiling as usual.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	durbar	durbar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Nur	Nur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	alert	alert	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the next morning's durbar |  |  |  | before Nur | fresh *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location |
| 2 | **smile** | gerund | the next morning's durbar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as usual | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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