--- title: At last he hit upon a plan, and told the king that the young man had… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At last he hit upon a plan, and told the king that the young man had boasted that he could bring home the king’s wife, who had vanished many months before, without leaving a trace behind her. Who acts: horse, young man, wife. 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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 (horse, young man, wife), 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:pg2435:14:37 # text = At last he hit upon a plan, and told the king that the young man had boasted that he could bring home the king’s wife, who had vanished many months before, without leaving a trace behind her. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 upon upon ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 boasted boast VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 ccomp _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 23 home home ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ’s 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 vanished vanish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 before before ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 without without SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 trace trace NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 behind behind ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit** | past | horse | | | | | upon a plan; at last | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at last=Patient | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | horse *not said here* | | the king | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **boast** *speech: other* | past · perfect | the young man | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **bring** | could | horse | | | | | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **vanish** | past · perfect | the king's wife | | | | | before *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **leave** | gerund | the king's wife *not said here* | a trace | | | | behind wife | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trace=Theme behind she=Location | 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/14/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/14/38/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/14/)