--- title: Between the fierce sun and his anger at being kept waiting, the Knig… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Between the fierce sun and his anger at being kept waiting, the Knight of the Fish had grown so hot that he lifted his visor, and when the old woman saw how handsome he was, she began fumbling with the lock of the gate. Who acts: Knight, old woman, woman, man. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knight, old woman, woman, man), 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:pg3282:38:16 # text = Between the fierce sun and his anger at being kept waiting, the Knight of the Fish had grown so hot that he lifted his visor, and when the old woman saw how handsome he was, she began fumbling with the lock of the gate. 1 Between between ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 at at SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 11 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Fish Fish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 visor visor NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 34 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 35 advmod _ _ 35 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 ccomp _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 41 fumbling fumble VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 xcomp _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 lock lock NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | gerund · passive | | man's anger *not said here* | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP» | | 2 | **wait** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | past · perfect · passive | | the Knight of the Fish | | | | hot *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **lift** | past | Knight | Knight's visor | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visor=Theme | | 5 | **see** | past | the old woman | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is** | past | Knight | | | | | handsome *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **begin** | past | woman | | | | | between the fierce sun and man's anger | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 8 | **fumble** | gerund | woman *not said here* | | | | | with the lock of the gate | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **anger** | | man | | | | | | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/38/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/38/17/) - ↑ back to [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/38/)