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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 50

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But although his anger made him cruel enough for anything so dreadful, the king felt that he could not turn his great sword on the helpless baby, who he was sure must soon die in this solitary place without its mother; so he left it in the cave where it was, and, mounting his camel, rode home as fast as he could.

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**Who acts:** anger, king, helpless baby · **What happens:** make, feel, not turn, be, die, leave · **To what, where:** king, great sword, helpless baby, sword, cave, camel

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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 (anger, king, helpless baby), 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:pg3282:33:50
# text = But although his anger made him cruel enough for anything so dreadful, the king felt that he could not turn his great sword on the helpless baby, who he was sure must soon die in this solitary place without its mother; so he left it in the cave where it was, and, mounting his camel, rode home as fast as he could.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	parataxis	_	_
34	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
36	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	ccomp	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
39	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	without	without	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
45	so	so	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
52	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	54	advmod	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
58	mounting	mount	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	advcl	_	_
59	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
62	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	conj	_	_
63	home	home	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
64	as	as	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	_
65	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	62	advmod	_	_
66	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	68	mark	_	_
67	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	68	nsubj	_	_
68	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	65	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | king's anger | king |  |  |  | for anything; cruel, dreadful, enough *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent he=Product for anything=Asset |
| 2 | **feel** | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **turn** | could | king | king's great sword |  | the helpless baby |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the helpless baby |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **die** | must | the helpless baby *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without sword's mother; in this solitary place; soon *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in place=Attribute |
| 6 | **leave** | past | king | sword |  | the cave |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cave=Location |
| 7 | **mount** | gerund | king *not said here* | king's camel |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Patient |
| 8 | **ride** | past | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast, home *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **anger** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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