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title: All the neighbouring kings had offered rich rewards to anyone who sh… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All the neighbouring kings had offered rich rewards to anyone who should be able to destroy the monster, either by force or enchantment, and many had tried their luck, but all had miserably failed. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2), with its dependency 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 9

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All the neighbouring kings had offered rich rewards to anyone who should be able to destroy the monster, either by force or enchantment, and many had tried their luck, but all had miserably failed.

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**What happens:** offer, be, destroy, try, fail · **To what, where:** neighbouring kings, monster, many, all

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg640:5:9
# text = All the neighbouring kings had offered rich rewards to anyone who should be able to destroy the monster, either by force or enchantment, and many had tried their luck, but all had miserably failed.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	neighbouring	neighbouring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rewards	reward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nmod	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc:preconj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	miserably	miserably	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	failed	fail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | past · perfect · passive |  | all neighbouring kings |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal reward=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | should |  |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **destroy** | to-infinitive |  | the monster |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Patient |
| 4 | **try** | past · perfect · passive |  | many |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer luck=Result |
| 5 | **fail** | past · perfect · passive |  | all |  |  |  | miserably *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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