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title: The king remained patiently in his palace, feeling sure that this ti… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king remained patiently in his palace, feeling sure that this time Maria could not escape him; and he said to his pages, “If a gentleman should come here with his daughter and ask to be allowed to speak with me, put the young lady in my room and see she does not leave it.” Who acts: king, gentle
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 90

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The king remained patiently in his palace, feeling sure that this time Maria could not escape him; and he said to his pages, “If a gentleman should come here with his daughter and ask to be allowed to speak with me, put the young lady in my room and see she does not leave it.”

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**Who acts:** king, gentleman, daughter · **What happens:** remain, feel, not escape, say, come, ask · **To what, where:** palace, king, pages, young lady, room · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (king, gentleman, daughter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2435:38:90
# text = The king remained patiently in his palace, feeling sure that this time Maria could not escape him; and he said to his pages, “If a gentleman should come here with his daughter and ask to be allowed to speak with me, put the young lady in my room and see she does not leave it.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	patiently	patiently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	Maria	Maria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
33	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	ccomp	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	conj	_	_
56	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
57	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
58	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	59	advmod	_	_
59	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	ccomp	_	_
60	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | the king |  |  | king's palace |  | patiently *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
| 2 | **feel** | gerund | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **escape** | could | the king *not said here* | king |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king |  | king's pages |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to page=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | should | a gentleman |  |  | here |  | with king's daughter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | infinitive | a gentleman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **allow** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **speak** *speech: other* *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with king | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent |
| 9 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | a gentleman *not said here* | the young lady |  | my room |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lady=Theme in room=Destination |
| 10 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | a gentleman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 11 | **not** **leave** *in a quote* | present · do-support | daughter | room |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 12 | **page** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom page «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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.

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