--- title: By-and-by the story came to the king’s ears, and he thought that a m… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: By-and-by the story came to the king’s ears, and he thought that a man who was so clever was just the man to govern the country; so he made him his minister, and after the king himself there was no one so great as he. Who acts: man. 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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 (man), 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:pg2435:27:45 # text = By-and-by the story came to the king’s ears, and he thought that a man who was so clever was just the man to govern the country; so he made him his minister, and after the king himself there was no one so great as he. 1 By by ADP IN _ 7 case _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 8 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’s 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 just just ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 ccomp _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 govern govern VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 42 after after ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 45 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 47 nsubj _ _ 46 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 47 expl _ _ 47 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 48 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 49 det _ _ 49 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 50 so so ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 51 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 52 as as ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | | | | the king's ears | | by the story | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ear=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | man | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | a man | | | | | clever *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | past | a man | the man | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **govern** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | the country | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent country=Theme | | 6 | **make** | past | man | man's minister | king | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary minister=Product | | 7 | **is a** | past | | no one | | | after the king | | tree rules | 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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/27/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/27/46/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/27/)