--- title: Now the king had everything to make him happy, but he did not enjoy… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now the king had everything to make him happy, but he did not enjoy anything because he could not find a bride to his mind. Who acts: king, everything. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/4/43/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/4/) / 43 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 43 Now the king had everything to make him happy, but he did not enjoy anything because he could not find a bride to his mind. **Who acts:** king, everything · **What happens:** have, make, not enjoy, not find, mind · **To what, where:** everything, king, anything, bride This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, everything), 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:pg2435:4:43 # text = Now the king had everything to make him happy, but he did not enjoy anything because he could not find a bride to his mind. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 4 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 enjoy enjoy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 16 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 obj _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the king | everything | | | now | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | everything *not said here* | king | | | | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | | 3 | **not** **enjoy** | past · do-support | king | anything | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **find** | could | king | a bride | | | | to king's mind | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Topic | | 5 | **mind** | | king | | | | | | nom mind «cognition 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: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/4/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/4/44/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/4/)