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title: He is King of Waq of Qaf, and you will find none better.’ — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He is King of Waq of Qaf, and you will find none better.’ Who acts: king, you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 91

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He is King of Waq of Qaf, and you will find none better.’

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**Who acts:** king, you · **What happens:** be, find · **To what, where:** none

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you), 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:pg3282:5:91
# text = He is King of Waq of Qaf, and you will find none better.’
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Waq	Waq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Qaf	Qaf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	12	obj	_	_
14	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | king |  |  |  |  | of King Waq; of Qaf | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | future | you | none |  |  |  | good *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic |

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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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