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title: In fact, after a few days, despair possessed him to such a degree th… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 76

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In fact, after a few days, despair possessed him to such a degree that he made up his mind that all that happened was fate, and that escape was impossible; but he hoped devoutly some turn of fortune would reveal to him a way out of the difficulties which he had, with the best intentions, drawn upon himself.

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**Who acts:** despair, king, that, escape, turn · **What happens:** possess, make up, happen, be, hope, reveal · **To what, where:** king, fact, mind, fate, way, difficulties · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (despair, king, that, escape), 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:pg3282:34:76
# text = In fact, after a few days, despair possessed him to such a degree that he made up his mind that all that happened was fate, and that escape was impossible; but he hoped devoutly some turn of fortune would reveal to him a way out of the difficulties which he had, with the best intentions, drawn upon himself.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	possessed	possess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	15	det:predet	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
25	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
38	devoutly	devoutly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	det	_	_
40	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	reveal	reveal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	ccomp	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl:unmarked	_	_
49	out	out	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
53	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	obj	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
57	with	with	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	60	amod	_	_
60	intentions	intention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
62	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	60	acl	_	_
63	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | past | despair | king |  | fact and a few days |  | to such degree | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
| 2 | **make up** | past | king | king's mind |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 3 | **happen** | past | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | fate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | that escape |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **hope** | past | king |  |  |  |  | devoutly *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **reveal** | would | some turn of fortune | a way | king | the difficulties |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 8 | **have** | past | king | the difficulties |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **draw** | participle |  | the best intentions *not said here* |  |  |  | upon king | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **mind** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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