--- title: When his Majesty’s eyes fell on the two beautiful women, clad in dre… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When his Majesty’s eyes fell on the two beautiful women, clad in dresses of gold and silver, he forgot his sorrows and ordered preparations for the wedding to be made without delay. Who acts: eyes, messenger. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/23/16/) [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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/23/) / 16 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 16 When his Majesty’s eyes fell on the two beautiful women, clad in dresses of gold and silver, he forgot his sorrows and ordered preparations for the wedding to be made without delay. **Who acts:** eyes, messenger · **What happens:** fall, clad, forget, make, sorrow · **To what, where:** two beautiful women, dresses, sorrows This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, messenger), 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:pg2435:23:16 # text = When his Majesty’s eyes fell on the two beautiful women, clad in dresses of gold and silver, he forgot his sorrows and ordered preparations for the wedding to be made without delay. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 Majesty Majesty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’s 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 10 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 clad clad VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 dresses dress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 sorrows sorrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 ordered ordered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 preparations preparation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 34 without without ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 delay delay NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past | messenger's Majesty's eyes | | | | | on the two beautiful women | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on woman=Location | | 2 | **clad** | participle | | the two beautiful women *not said here* | | dresses of gold and silver | | | tree rules | | 3 | **forget** | past | messenger | messenger's sorrows and ordered preparations for the wedding | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | messenger *not said here* | | | | | without delay | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | | 5 | **sorrow** | | messenger | | | | | | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/23/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/23/17/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/23/)