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title: Florea, the eldest, was so tall and broad-shouldered that no man in… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Florea, the eldest, was so tall and broad-shouldered that no man in the kingdom could approach him. Who acts: Florea, man. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 8

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Florea, the eldest, was so tall and broad-shouldered that no man in the kingdom could approach him.

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**Who acts:** Florea, man · **What happens:** be, shoulder, approach · **To what, where:** Florea

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Florea, man), 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:pg641:19:8
# text = Florea, the eldest, was so tall and broad-shouldered that no man in the kingdom could approach him.
1	Florea	Florea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	shouldered	shoulder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	approach	approach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Florea |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shoulder** | participle | Florea *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **approach** | could | no man in the kingdom | Florea |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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