--- title: The king talked very pleasantly for a few miles, and when he thought… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The king talked very pleasantly for a few miles, and when he thought that his new companion was quite at ease with him, he asked him what was the secret which had brought him into such trouble. Who acts: king, new companion. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Bo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/34/) [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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/) / 34 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 34 The king talked very pleasantly for a few miles, and when he thought that his new companion was quite at ease with him, he asked him what was the secret which had brought him into such trouble. **Who acts:** king, new companion · **What happens:** talk, think, be, ask, bring · **To what, where:** ease, coachman, secret, such trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, new companion), 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:pg2435:7:34 # text = The king talked very pleasantly for a few miles, and when he thought that his new companion was quite at ease with him, he asked him what was the secret which had brought him into such trouble. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 pleasantly pleasantly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 companion companion NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 quite quite ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 ease ease NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 ccomp _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 iobj _ _ 29 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 35 obj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 ccomp _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 into into ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | past | the king | | | | | for a few miles; pleasantly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | king | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | king's new companion | | | ease | | with king | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | king | | coachman | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive | | the secret | | such trouble | | | tree rules | 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 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/35/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/7/)