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title: The king could hardly breathe with excitement lest it should make so… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king could hardly breathe with excitement lest it should make some noise, and bring all the people in the castle running to see what was the matter. Who acts: king, Sword, people. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 25

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The king could hardly breathe with excitement lest it should make some noise, and bring all the people in the castle running to see what was the matter.

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**Who acts:** king, Sword, people · **What happens:** breathe, make, bring, run, see, be · **To what, where:** noise, people, castle, matter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Sword, people), 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:pg3454:9:25
# text = The king could hardly breathe with excitement lest it should make some noise, and bring all the people in the castle running to see what was the matter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breathe** | could | the king |  |  |  |  | with excitement; hardly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | should | Sword | some noise |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material noise=Product |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive | the king *not said here* |  | all people | the castle |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument people=Destination |
| 4 | **run** | gerund | all people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | all people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | the matter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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