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title: Morning came, and the king got up, pale and sulky, and, after learni… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Morning came, and the king got up, pale and sulky, and, after learning from the hermit which path to take, was soon mounted and found his way home without much difficulty. Who acts: Morning, king. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate,
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 41

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Morning came, and the king got up, pale and sulky, and, after learning from the hermit which path to take, was soon mounted and found his way home without much difficulty.

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**Who acts:** Morning, king · **What happens:** come, get up, learn, take, mount, find · **To what, where:** hermit, way

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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 (Morning, king), 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:pg3282:33:41
# text = Morning came, and the king got up, pale and sulky, and, after learning from the hermit which path to take, was soon mounted and found his way home without much difficulty.
1	Morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sulky	sulky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	22	det	_	_
22	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
28	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	home	home	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
34	without	without	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Morning |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get up** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | pale *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **learn** | gerund |  |  |  | the hermit and which path |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from hermit=Source |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **mount** | past · passive | Morning *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location» |
| 6 | **find** | past | Morning *not said here* | king's way |  |  |  | without much difficulty; home *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |

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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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