--- title: “I care little,” he said, “what my fate may be; but I should be curi… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “I care little,” he said, “what my fate may be; but I should be curious to know the fate of my little daughter.” Who acts: king, fate, my. 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 every clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/30/) [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/) / [Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronge…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/) / 30 # The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 30 “I care little,” he said, “what my fate may be; but I should be curious to know the fate of my little daughter.” **Who acts:** king, fate, my · **What happens:** care, say, be, know, fate · **To what, where:** fate, little daughter · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (king, fate, my), 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:pg3282:33:30 # text = “I care little,” he said, “what my fate may be; but I should be curious to know the fate of my little daughter.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 care care VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 obj _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 21 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 csubj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **care** *in a quote* | present | king | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **be** *in a quote* | may | my fate | | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | should | king | | | | | curious *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **know** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | the fate of my little daughter | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus | | 6 | **fate** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **fate** *in a quote* | | | my little daughter | | | | | nom fate «event 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/31/) - ↑ back to [Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/)