--- title: When night came he went as usual to sleep among his geese, and the p… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When night came he went as usual to sleep among his geese, and the princess went to the king and said: “Father, I entreat you to have that horrible Paperarello put to death.” Who acts: night, bridegroom, princess, horrible Paperarello. 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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 (night, bridegroom, princess, horrible Paperarello), 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:pg2435:13:39 # text = When night came he went as usual to sleep among his geese, and the princess went to the king and said: “Father, I entreat you to have that horrible Paperarello put to death.” 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 10 among among ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 geese goose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 entreat entreat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 32 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 nsubj _ _ 33 horrible horrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 Paperarello Paperarello PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | night | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past | bridegroom | | | | | as usual | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | bridegroom *not said here* | | | | | among bridegroom's geese | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **go** | past | the princess | | | | | to the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **entreat** *in a quote* | present | the princess *= princess* | | you | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 7 | **have** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the princess *= princess* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **put** *in a quote* | past | horrible Paperarello | | | | | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/40/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/)