--- title: "Now tell me," said the king, "what makes you so cheerful and glad h… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics description: "Now tell me," said the king, "what makes you so cheerful and glad here in your dusty mill, while I, who am king, am sad and in trouble every day." Who acts: king. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg18442:16:14 # text = "Now tell me," said the king, "what makes you so cheerful and glad here in your dusty mill, while I, who am king, am sad and in trouble every day." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 4 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 nsubj _ _ 13 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 cheerful cheerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 19 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 dusty dusty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 mill mill NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 29 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 parataxis _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 37 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 38 det _ _ 38 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | the king *= king* | | now | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present | | you | | your dusty mill; here | | cheerful *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | king | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the king *= king* | | | | day | sad *property* | 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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/16/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/16/15/) - ↑ back to [The Miller of the Dee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/16/)