--- title: Meanwhile the poor friend had been unable to get through his task in… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Meanwhile the poor friend had been unable to get through his task in the short time appointed by the king, and when at last he returned the king said to him, Who acts: poor friend, last, friend. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/1/) [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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/) / 1 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 1 Meanwhile the poor friend had been unable to get through his task in the short time appointed by the king, and when at last he returned the king said to him, **Who acts:** poor friend, last, friend · **What happens:** be, get, appoint, return, say, task · **To what, where:** task, short time, king, friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor friend, last, friend), 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:pg2435:38:1 # text = Meanwhile the poor friend had been unable to get through his task in the short time appointed by the king, and when at last he returned the king said to him, 1 Meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 cop _ _ 7 unable unable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 through through ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 task task NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 17 appointed appoint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 last last NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past · perfect | the poor friend | | | | | meanwhile, unable *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | the poor friend *not said here* | | | friend's task | time | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through task=Destination | | 3 | **appoint** | participle | | the short time *not said here* | | | | by the king | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **return** | past | last | the king | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | last | | friend | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 6 | **task** | | friend | | | | | | nom task «act 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: [The Crimson Fairy Book, part…, 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/37/105/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/2/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/)