---
title: Now Paperarello, who was passing through the hall where the king was… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Paperarello, who was passing through the hall where the king was giving his orders, heard these words, and said: “Your Majesty, have no fears; I will bake your bread.” Who acts: Paperarello, king, Majesty. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, wi
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/19/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/) / 19

# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 19

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Now Paperarello, who was passing through the hall where the king was giving his orders, heard these words, and said: “Your Majesty, have no fears; I will bake your bread.”

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Paperarello, king, Majesty · **What happens:** pass, give, hear, say, have, bake · **To what, where:** hall, orders, words, fears, bread · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paperarello, king, Majesty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2435:13:19
# text = Now Paperarello, who was passing through the hall where the king was giving his orders, heard these words, and said: “Your Majesty, have no fears; I will bake your bread.”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
2	Paperarello	Paperarello	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
36	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · progressive | Paperarello |  |  | the hall |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through hall=Location |
| 2 | **give** | past · progressive | the king | king's orders |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | past | Paperarello | this words |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Paperarello *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Your Majesty | no fears |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient |
| 6 | **bake** *in a quote* | future | Paperarello | your bread |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Product |
| 7 | **order** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/18/)
- next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/20/)
- ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/)

