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title: Then he made over the fort and all that was in it to the care of the… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he made over the fort and all that was in it to the care of the lion, saying: “Guard them, brother! let no one lay a hand on them.” Who acts: king, that, saying, lion. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 60

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Then he made over the fort and all that was in it to the care of the lion, saying: “Guard them, brother! let no one lay a hand on them.”

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**Who acts:** king, that, saying, lion · **What happens:** make, be, say, let, lie, care · **To what, where:** fort, Guard, one, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, that, saying, 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:pg3282:4:60
# text = Then he made over the fort and all that was in it to the care of the lion, saying: “Guard them, brother! let no one lay a hand on them.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fort	fort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Guard	Guard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
28	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | king |  |  | the fort | then | to the care of the lion | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | that |  |  | fort |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund |  | Guard  guards and brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | no one |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 5 | **lie** *in a quote* | past | saying | a hand |  |  |  | on guards *= guard* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 6 | **care** |  | the lion |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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