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title: SHE would not let a handsome young fellow like that be beheaded; but… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: SHE would not let a handsome young fellow like that be beheaded; but how to prevent it was not quite clear at the moment. Who acts: shame, handsome young fellow, One. 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 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 160

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SHE would not let a handsome young fellow like that be beheaded; but how to prevent it was not quite clear at the moment.

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**Who acts:** shame, handsome young fellow, One · **What happens:** not let, behead, prevent, not be · **To what, where:** handsome young fellow

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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 (shame, handsome young fellow, One), 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:pg3282:33:160
# text = SHE would not let a handsome young fellow like that be beheaded; but how to prevent it was not quite clear at the moment.
1	SHE	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	beheaded	behead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** | would | shame | a handsome young fellow |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme |
| 2 | **behead** | infinitive · passive | a handsome young fellow *not said here* | a handsome young fellow |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | shame *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | One |  |  |  | moment | clear *property* | tree rules |

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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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