--- title: He was a clever and amusing boy, who saw everything that passed unde… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He was a clever and amusing boy, who saw everything that passed under his eyes, and the king noticed this, and often employed him in his own service, which made his brothers very jealous. Who acts: Pinkel, clever boy, king, own service. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/59/) [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 Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/) / 59 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 59 He was a clever and amusing boy, who saw everything that passed under his eyes, and the king noticed this, and often employed him in his own service, which made his brothers very jealous. **Who acts:** Pinkel, clever boy, king, own service · **What happens:** be, see, pass, notice, employ, make · **To what, where:** clever boy, everything, eyes, this, Pinkel, own service This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pinkel, clever boy, king, own service), 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:pg3027:16:59 # text = He was a clever and amusing boy, who saw everything that passed under his eyes, and the king noticed this, and often employed him in his own service, which made his brothers very jealous. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 amusing amusing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 10 obj _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 under under ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 often often ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 employed employ VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 37 very very ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 jealous jealous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Pinkel | a clever boy | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | past | a clever boy | everything | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | | 3 | **pass** | past | | | | Pinkel's eyes | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under eye=Location | | 4 | **notice** | past | the king | this | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | | 5 | **employ** | past | a clever boy *not said here* | Pinkel | | Pinkel's own service | | often *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **make** | past | Pinkel's own service | Pinkel's brothers | | | | jealous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset brother=Product | | 7 | **service** | | Pinkel | | | | | | nom service «act 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/60/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/)