--- title: The following morning the king of the country happened to step on to… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The following morning the king of the country happened to step on to his balcony, and saw the young men in the garden, and said to himself, “Dear me, those are wonderfully handsome youths; but one is handsomer than the other, and to him will I give my daughter to wife;” and indeed the king’s son exc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/37/76/) [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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/37/) / 76 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 76 The following morning the king of the country happened to step on to his balcony, and saw the young men in the garden, and said to himself, “Dear me, those are wonderfully handsome youths; but one is handsomer than the other, and to him will I give my daughter to wife;” and indeed the king’s son excelled his friend in beauty. **Who acts:** following morning, one, I, son · **What happens:** follow, happen, step on, see, say, be · **To what, where:** balcony, young men, garden, man, handsome youths, daughter · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (following morning, one, I, son), 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:pg2435:37:76 # text = The following morning the king of the country happened to step on to his balcony, and saw the young men in the garden, and said to himself, “Dear me, those are wonderfully handsome youths; but one is handsomer than the other, and to him will I give my daughter to wife;” and indeed the king’s son excelled his friend in beauty. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 step step VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 on on ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 balcony balcony NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 “ " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 Dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 parataxis _ _ 33 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 39 det _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 wonderfully wonderfully ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 38 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 youths youth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ; ; PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 but but CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 nsubj _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 44 handsomer handsome ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 conj _ _ 45 than than ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 50 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 obl _ _ 52 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 53 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 54 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 55 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 56 nmod:poss _ _ 56 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obj _ _ 57 to to PART TO _ 58 mark _ _ 58 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 59 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 61 and and CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 62 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 66 advmod _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 65 ’s 's PART POS _ 64 case _ _ 66 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 nsubj _ _ 67 excelled excel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 68 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 69 nmod:poss _ _ 69 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 obj _ _ 70 in in ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 71 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 72 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **happen** | past | the following morning | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **step on** | to-infinitive | the following morning *not said here* | | | way's balcony | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to balcony=Destination | | 4 | **see** | past | the following morning *not said here* | the young men | | the garden | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | man | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | that handsome youths | | | | wonderfully *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | one | | | | | than the other; handsome *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **give** *in a quote* | future | I | my daughter | man | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to he=Recipient | | 9 | **excel** | past | the king's son | son's friend | | beauty | | | 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 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/37/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/37/77/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/37/)