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title: Thus it was not very surprising that, before very long, he became en… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus it was not very surprising that, before very long, he became enrolled amongst the picked men of the king’s bodyguard. Who acts: desperateness, Nur. 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
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 95

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Thus it was not very surprising that, before very long, he became enrolled amongst the picked men of the king’s bodyguard.

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**Who acts:** desperateness, Nur · **What happens:** not be, become, enroll, pick

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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 (desperateness, Nur), 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:pg3282:33:95
# text = Thus it was not very surprising that, before very long, he became enrolled amongst the picked men of the king’s bodyguard.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	surprising	surprising	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	enrolled	enroll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	xcomp	_	_
16	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	bodyguard	bodyguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | desperateness |  |  |  |  | surprising, thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | Nur |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **enroll** | participle | Nur *not said here* |  |  |  |  | amongst the picked men of the king's bodyguard | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pick** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «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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