--- title: Then he ordered his servants to bring costly coverings and wrap him… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then he ordered his servants to bring costly coverings and wrap him in them, that the gnats might no longer be able to reach him. Who acts: prince, servants, gnats. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/207/30/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Wicked Prince](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/207/) / 30 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 30 Then he ordered his servants to bring costly coverings and wrap him in them, that the gnats might no longer be able to reach him. **Who acts:** prince, servants, gnats · **What happens:** order, bring, wrap, be, reach · **To what, where:** servants, costly coverings, prince This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, servants, gnats), 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:pg27200:207:30 # text = Then he ordered his servants to bring costly coverings and wrap him in them, that the gnats might no longer be able to reach him. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 8 costly costly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 coverings covering NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 wrap wrap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 gnats gnat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 19 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 20 no no ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 23 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 parataxis _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **order** | past | prince | prince's servants | | | then | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | prince's servants *not said here* | costly coverings | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent covering=Theme | | 3 | **wrap** | present | prince *not said here* | prince | | | | in warriors *= warrior* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in they=Destination | | 4 | **is** | might | the gnats | | | | | able, long *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **reach** | to-infinitive | the gnats *not said here* | prince | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/207/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/207/31/) - ↑ back to [The Wicked Prince](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/207/)