--- title: The king was at his council and the queen was ill in bed, so there w… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The king was at his council and the queen was ill in bed, so there was no one to stop the princess, and she hastily ran across the gardens to the houses where the servants lived. Who acts: king, queen, one, princess. 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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 (king, queen, one, princess), 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:pg2435:7:18 # text = The king was at his council and the queen was ill in bed, so there was no one to stop the princess, and she hastily ran across the gardens to the houses where the servants lived. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 17 expl _ _ 17 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 18 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 19 det _ _ 19 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 hastily hastily ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 29 across across ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 gardens garden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 35 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 38 advmod _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the king | | | king's council | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | the queen | | | bed | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | past | no one | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | the princess | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality princess=Eventuality | | 5 | **run** | past | princess | | | the gardens | | to the houses *result*; hastily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result | | 6 | **live** | past | the servants | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/19/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/)