--- title: So when, as before, the king came down to the stables and praised th… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So when, as before, the king came down to the stables and praised the cleverness of their brother, the young men told him of that other marvel possessed by the witch, the goat with the golden horns. Who acts: king, young men. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/99/) [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/) / 99 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 99 So when, as before, the king came down to the stables and praised the cleverness of their brother, the young men told him of that other marvel possessed by the witch, the goat with the golden horns. **Who acts:** king, young men · **What happens:** come down, praise, tell, possess · **To what, where:** stables, cleverness, king, other marvel · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (king, young men), 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:pg3027:16:99 # text = So when, as before, the king came down to the stables and praised the cleverness of their brother, the young men told him of that other marvel possessed by the witch, the goat with the golden horns. 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 before before ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 down down ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 stables stable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 praised praise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 cleverness cleverness NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 29 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 marvel marvel NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 possessed possess VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come down** | past | the king | | | the stables | | before, down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **praise** | past | the king *not said here* | the cleverness of brothers's brother | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleverness=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the young men | | king | | | of that other marvel and the goat; with the golden horns | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 4 | **possess** | participle | | that other marvel and the goat *not said here* | | | | by the witch | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | 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 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/100/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/)