--- title: And, being a king, and therefore accustomed to have everything the m… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And, being a king, and therefore accustomed to have everything the moment he wanted it, he commanded the ceremony to be performed without delay, and a splendid feast to be made for the bride and bridegroom. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/21/79/) [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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/21/) / 79 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 79 And, being a king, and therefore accustomed to have everything the moment he wanted it, he commanded the ceremony to be performed without delay, and a splendid feast to be made for the bride and bridegroom. **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** be, accustom, have, want, command, perform · **To what, where:** king, everything, marriage, ceremony · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg2435:21:79 # text = And, being a king, and therefore accustomed to have everything the moment he wanted it, he commanded the ceremony to be performed without delay, and a splendid feast to be made for the bride and bridegroom. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 accustomed accustom VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 11 obj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 ceremony ceremony NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 performed perform VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 26 without without ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 delay delay NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 bridegroom bridegroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | gerund | | a king | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **accustom** | participle | | a king *not said here* | | | | therefore *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | | everything | | | moment | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient | | 4 | **want** | past | king | marriage | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 5 | **command** | past | a king | the ceremony | | | | a splendid feast *obl* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent ceremony=Eventuality | | 6 | **perform** | to-infinitive · passive | a king *not said here* | the ceremony *not said here* | | | | without delay | vn performance-26.7 «NP V» | | 7 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | a king *not said here* | | | | | for the bride and bridegroom | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for bride=Beneficiary | 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 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/21/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/21/80/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/21/)