---
title: But the king would not listen to his son’s voice, for he had always… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the king would not listen to his son’s voice, for he had always been accustomed to depend on his own judgment. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/35/24/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/35/) / 24

# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 24

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
But the king would not listen to his son’s voice, for he had always been accustomed to depend on his own judgment.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** not listen, accustom, depend, judge · **To what, where:** king

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. 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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2435:35:24
# text = But the king would not listen to his son’s voice, for he had always been accustomed to depend on his own judgment.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	depend	depend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **listen** | would | the king |  |  |  |  | to king's son's voice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to voice=Theme |
| 2 | **accustom** | past · perfect · passive |  | king |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **depend** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | on king's own judgment | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on judgment=Theme |
| 4 | **judge** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/35/23/)
- next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/35/25/)
- ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/35/)