--- title: The king tried to do as he was bidden, but he could not make a sound. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics description: The king tried to do as he was bidden, but he could not make a sound. Who acts: king. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/47/48/) [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/) / [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/) / [Maximilian and the Goose Boy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/47/) / 48 # Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 48 The king tried to do as he was bidden, but he could not make a sound. **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** try, do, bid, not make · **To what, where:** king, sound This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Maximilian and the Goose Boy.. 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:pg18442:47:48 # text = The king tried to do as he was bidden, but he could not make a sound. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 bidden bid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | past | the king | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bid** | past · passive | | king | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **make** | could | king | a sound | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Product | 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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/47/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/47/49/) - ↑ back to [Maximilian and the Goose Boy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/47/)