--- title: Then the king declared his intention of making her his bride, but th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then the king declared his intention of making her his bride, but the archbishop shook his head, and whispered that the fair young maiden was only a witch who had blinded the king's eyes and bewitched his heart. Who acts: king, intention, archbishop, fair young maiden. 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C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, intention, archbishop, fair young maiden), 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:pg27200:209:95 # text = Then the king declared his intention of making her his bride, but the archbishop shook his head, and whispered that the fair young maiden was only a witch who had blinded the king's eyes and bewitched his heart. 1 Then then 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 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 intention intention NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 9 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 archbishop archbishop NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 whispered whisper VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 ccomp _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 blinded blind VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 bewitched bewitch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the king | king's intention | | | then | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Attribute | | 2 | **make** | gerund | king's intention *not said here* | king's bride | head | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary bride=Product | | 3 | **shake** | past | the archbishop | king's head | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 4 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | past | the fair young maiden | a witch | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **blind** | past · perfect | a witch | the king's eyes | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **bewitch** | past | | king's heart | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer | | 8 | **intend** | | king | | | | | | nom intention «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:** «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 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/209/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/209/96/) - ↑ back to [The Wild Swans, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/209/)