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title: The king-lion greatly praised the dashing courage of Prince Almas. — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king-lion greatly praised the dashing courage of Prince Almas. Who acts: king lion. 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 54

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The king-lion greatly praised the dashing courage of Prince Almas.

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**Who acts:** king lion · **What happens:** praise, dash · **To what, where:** dashing courage

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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 (king lion), 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:pg3282:4:54
# text = The king-lion greatly praised the dashing courage of Prince Almas.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	praised	praise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	dashing	dash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Almas	Almas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **praise** | past | the king lion | the dashing courage of Almas  Prince |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme |
| 2 | **dash** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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