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title: He saw nothing for it but to submit to some horrible death, but he d… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw nothing for it but to submit to some horrible death, but he determined that the Iron King should not profit more than he could help, and flung his precious thread into the air, saying, as he did so, ‘O fairy, my misfortunes are greater than your power. Who acts: Girouette, Iron King, misfortu
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 87

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He saw nothing for it but to submit to some horrible death, but he determined that the Iron King should not profit more than he could help, and flung his precious thread into the air, saying, as he did so, ‘O fairy, my misfortunes are greater than your power.

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**Who acts:** Girouette, Iron King, misfortunes · **What happens:** see, submit, determine, not profit, help, fling · **To what, where:** nothing, precious thread, air · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Girouette, Iron King, misfortunes), 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:pg5615:30:87
# text = He saw nothing for it but to submit to some horrible death, but he determined that the Iron King should not profit more than he could help, and flung his precious thread into the air, saying, as he did so, ‘O fairy, my misfortunes are greater than your power.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	submit	submit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
24	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
25	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	ccomp	_	_
44	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	48	discourse	_	_
48	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
52	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
53	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	48	parataxis	_	_
54	than	than	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Girouette | nothing |  |  |  | for heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **submit** | to-infinitive | Girouette *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to some horrible death | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to death=Theme |
| 3 | **determine** | past | Girouette |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **profit** | should | the Iron King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **help** | could | Girouette |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fling** | past | Girouette *not said here* | Girouette's precious thread |  | the air |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent thread=Theme into air=Destination |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Girouette *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **do** | past | Girouette |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is** | present | my misfortunes |  |  |  |  | than your power; great *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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