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title: Suddenly from behind the distant veil of the desert appeared an army… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly from behind the distant veil of the desert appeared an army of lions led by their king. Who acts: distant veil. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 43

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Suddenly from behind the distant veil of the desert appeared an army of lions led by their king.

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**Who acts:** distant veil · **What happens:** appear, lead · **To what, where:** army, lions

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (distant veil), 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:pg3282:4:43
# text = Suddenly from behind the distant veil of the desert appeared an army of lions led by their king.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the distant veil of the desert | a army of lions |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location army=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | participle |  | lions *not said here* |  |  |  | by lion's king | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by king=Destination |

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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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