--- title: The king’s joy at receiving back his lost daughter was so great that… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The king’s joy at receiving back his lost daughter was so great that he almost fainted, but when he recovered himself he made the young man tell him how everything had really happened. Who acts: joy, youth, young man, everything. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fai --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/22/78/) [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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/22/) / 78 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 78 The king’s joy at receiving back his lost daughter was so great that he almost fainted, but when he recovered himself he made the young man tell him how everything had really happened. **Who acts:** joy, youth, young man, everything, king · **What happens:** receive back, lose, be, faint, recover, make · **To what, where:** lost daughter, youth · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, youth, young man, everything), 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:pg2435:22:78 # text = The king’s joy at receiving back his lost daughter was so great that he almost fainted, but when he recovered himself he made the young man tell him how everything had really happened. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’s 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 5 at at SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 receiving receive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 7 back back ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 almost almost ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 fainted faint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 recovered recover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 23 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 22 obj _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 35 advmod _ _ 32 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 35 nsubj _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 really really ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **receive back** | gerund | the king's joy *not said here* | youth's lost daughter | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | | 2 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | the king's joy | | | | | great *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **faint** | past | youth | | | | | almost *property* | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **recover** | past | youth | youth | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 6 | **make** | past | youth | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the young man | | youth | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 8 | **happen** | past · perfect | everything | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **joy** | | the king | | | | | | nom joy «feeling 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 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/22/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/22/79/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/22/)