--- title: He longed to form part of the embassy himself, if only in the disgui… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He longed to form part of the embassy himself, if only in the disguise of a page; but this the king would not allow, and so the prince had to content himself with searching the kingdom for everything that was rare and beautiful to send to the princess. Who acts: news, king, prince. A sentence of «Th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/88/) [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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/) / 88 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 88 He longed to form part of the embassy himself, if only in the disguise of a page; but this the king would not allow, and so the prince had to content himself with searching the kingdom for everything that was rare and beautiful to send to the princess. **Who acts:** news, king, prince · **What happens:** long, form, not allow, have, content, search · **To what, where:** part, disguise, news, kingdom, princess This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news, king, prince), 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:pg3027:22:88 # text = He longed to form part of the embassy himself, if only in the disguise of a page; but this the king would not allow, and so the prince had to content himself with searching the kingdom for everything that was rare and beautiful to send to the princess. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 longed long VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 form form VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 embassy embassy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 only only ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 disguise disguise NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 page page NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 allow allow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 content content VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 34 obj _ _ 36 with with SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 searching search VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 37 obl _ _ 42 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 nsubj _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 44 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 acl:relcl _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 conj _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 xcomp _ _ 49 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **long** | past | news | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **form** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | news *not said here* | part of the embassy news | | the disguise of a page | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme | | 3 | **not** **allow** | would | this king | | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 4 | **have** | past | the prince | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **content** | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* | news | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | | 6 | **search** | gerund | the prince *not said here* | the kingdom | | | | for everything | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=Location for everything=Theme | | 7 | **is** | past | | | | | | rare *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **send** | to-infinitive | | | the princess | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to princess=Destination | 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 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/89/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/)