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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 17

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Her reason for this was that she felt persuaded that, finding himself suddenly alone and robbed of everything, the king would hide his real birth, and would have to fall back on his powers of pleasing, like other men, which would be much better for him.

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**Who acts:** king, other men · **What happens:** be, find, rob, hide, have, fall back · **To what, where:** reason, king, real birth, powers

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, other men), 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:pg5615:30:17
# text = Her reason for this was that she felt persuaded that, finding himself suddenly alone and robbed of everything, the king would hide his real birth, and would have to fall back on his powers of pleasing, like other men, which would be much better for him.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	robbed	rob	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	back	back	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	pleasing	pleasing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	like	like	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
46	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
47	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	cop	_	_
48	much	much	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	43	conj	_	_
50	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · passive |  | Aveline's reason for this |  |  |  | persuade *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | gerund |  | king |  |  |  | alone, suddenly *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 3 | **rob** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of everything | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent of everything=Source |
| 4 | **hide** | would | the king | king's real birth |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | would | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fall back** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  | king's powers of pleasing |  | like other men | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on power=Location |
| 7 | **is** | would | other men |  |  |  |  | for king; good *property* | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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