--- title: Instantly the royal carriage was commanded to drive with all speed a… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Instantly the royal carriage was commanded to drive with all speed and bring back this magician, offering him riches untold if he could restore their noses to their former length. Who acts: town. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/45/) [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 Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/) / 45 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 45 Instantly the royal carriage was commanded to drive with all speed and bring back this magician, offering him riches untold if he could restore their noses to their former length. **Who acts:** town · **What happens:** command, drive, bring back, offer, restore · **To what, where:** royal carriage, magician, riches, town, noses, former length · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town), 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:pg2435:12:45 # text = Instantly the royal carriage was commanded to drive with all speed and bring back this magician, offering him riches untold if he could restore their noses to their former length. 1 Instantly instantly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 carriage carriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 commanded command VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 14 back back ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 offering offer VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 riches rich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 untold untold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 restore restore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 noses nose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **command** | past · passive | | the royal carriage | | | | instantly *property* | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **drive** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | with all speed | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bring back** | infinitive | | this magician | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent magician=Theme | | 4 | **offer** | gerund | | riches | town | | | untold *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal rich=Theme | | 5 | **restore** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | town | riches's noses | riches's former length | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nose=Theme to length=Recipient | 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/46/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/)