--- title: After everyone had tried and failed a servant entered and informed t… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: After everyone had tried and failed a servant entered and informed the queen that a strange old man had just knocked at the palace gate and declared that he was able to heal the dying youth. Who acts: servant, 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 (servant, 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:pg2435:38:9 # text = After everyone had tried and failed a servant entered and informed the queen that a strange old man had just knocked at the palace gate and declared that he was able to heal the dying youth. 1 After after ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 4 obl _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 tried try VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 informed inform VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 just just ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 knocked knock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 ccomp _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 ccomp _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 heal heal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 dying die VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 amod _ _ 36 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | past · perfect | | | | | after everyone | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **fail** | past | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **enter** | past | a servant | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **inform** *speech: other* | past | | the queen | | | | | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **knock** | past · perfect · passive | | a strange old man | | the palace gate | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme at gate=Destination | | 6 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | past | man | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **heal** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | the dying youth | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent youth=Patient | | 9 | **die** | gerund | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/10/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/)