--- title: At last, when everything else had failed, she managed to make her br… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At last, when everything else had failed, she managed to make her brother, who was king of the neighbouring country, declare war against the emperor, and besiege some of the frontier towns with a large army. Who acts: mother, brother. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys Wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/25/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Boys With the Golden Stars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/) / 25 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 25 At last, when everything else had failed, she managed to make her brother, who was king of the neighbouring country, declare war against the emperor, and besiege some of the frontier towns with a large army. **Who acts:** mother, brother · **What happens:** fail, manage, make, be, neighbour, declare · **To what, where:** everything, brother, king, war, some This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:35:25 # text = At last, when everything else had failed, she managed to make her brother, who was king of the neighbouring country, declare war against the emperor, and besiege some of the frontier towns with a large army. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 5 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 else else ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 failed fail VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 managed manage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 neighbouring neighbour VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 amod _ _ 23 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 declare declare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 26 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 against against ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 besiege besiege VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 33 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 32 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 frontier frontier NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fail** | past · perfect · passive | | everything | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **manage** | past | mother | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | mother's brother | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset brother=Product | | 4 | **is a** | past | mother's brother | king | | | | of the neighbouring country | tree rules | | 5 | **neighbour** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **declare** *speech: other* | infinitive | mother *not said here* | war | | | | against the emperor | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute | | 7 | **besiege** | infinitive | mother *not said here* | some | | | | with a large army | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/26/) - ↑ back to [The Boys With the Golden Stars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/)