--- title: He would have liked to go back by the way ho had come, but courage f… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He would have liked to go back by the way ho had come, but courage forbade, and he said, “What has been preordained from eternity will happen to me,” and went on towards the castle. Who acts: prince, ho, courage. 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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 (prince, ho, courage), 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:pg3282:4:18 # text = He would have liked to go back by the way ho had come, but courage forbade, and he said, “What has been preordained from eternity will happen to me,” and went on towards the castle. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux _ _ 4 liked like VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 back back ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 ho ho NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 forbade forbid VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 “ " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 27 obj _ _ 25 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 preordained preordain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 nsubj _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 eternity eternity NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ” " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 towards towards ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **like** | would · perfect | prince | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **go back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* | | | | | by the way | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **come** | past · perfect | ho | the way *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | | 4 | **forbid** | past | courage | | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | prince | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **preordain** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | | | | from eternity | | tree rules | | 7 | **happen** *in a quote* | future | | | prince | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **go** | past | courage *not said here* | | | the castle | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on castle=Location | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/19/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/)