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title: But all men die, and no brave man lets death frighten him from his d… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But all men die, and no brave man lets death frighten him from his desire. Who acts: men, brave man, death, Sigurd. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 67

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But all men die, and no brave man lets death frighten him from his desire.

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**Who acts:** men, brave man, death, Sigurd · **What happens:** die, let, frighten, desire · **To what, where:** death, Sigurd, desire

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, brave man, death, Sigurd), 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:pg540:51:67
# text = But all men die, and no brave man lets death frighten him from his desire.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
8	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	frighten	frighten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | present | all men |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **let** | present | no brave man | death |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **frighten** | infinitive | death *not said here* | Sigurd |  | Sigurd's desire |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 4 | **desire** |  | Sigurd |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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