--- title: “Your Majesty’s ear,” answered the knight; and as the king could not… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Your Majesty’s ear,” answered the knight; and as the king could not go back from his word, he cut it off and gave it to him. Who acts: ear, king, knight. 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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 (ear, king, knight), 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:pg2435:13:61 # text = “Your Majesty’s ear,” answered the knight; and as the king could not go back from his word, he cut it off and gave it to him. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’s 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 19 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 off off ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Your Majesty's ear | | the knight | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent knight=Eventuality | | 2 | **not** **go back** | could | the king | | | knight's word | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **cut off** | past | knight | ear | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | | 4 | **give** | past | knight *not said here* | ear | knight | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient | | 5 | **word** | | knight | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/62/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/)