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title: He took the command of the army which was brought against the wicked… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He took the command of the army which was brought against the wicked King, and defeated him in a glorious battle, so that peace was at once concluded on conditions that were just to everyone. Who acts: Rosimond, conditions. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring, wit
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 62

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He took the command of the army which was brought against the wicked King, and defeated him in a glorious battle, so that peace was at once concluded on conditions that were just to everyone.

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**Who acts:** Rosimond, conditions · **What happens:** take, bring, defeat, conclude, be, command · **To what, where:** command, army, Rosimond, glorious battle, peace, conditions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosimond, conditions), 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:pg7277:19:62
# text = He took the command of the army which was brought against the wicked King, and defeated him in a glorious battle, so that peace was at once concluded on conditions that were just to everyone.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	against	against	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	30	mark	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	30	obl	_	_
30	concluded	conclude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	just	just	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Rosimond | the command of the army |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | past · passive |  | the army |  |  |  | against the wicked King | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme against king=Destination |
| 3 | **defeat** | past |  | Rosimond |  | a glorious battle |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **conclude** | past · passive |  | peace |  | conditions |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | conditions |  |  |  |  | to everyone | tree rules |
| 6 | **command** |  |  | the army |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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