--- title: Once upon a time there lived a king who was always at war with his n… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Once upon a time there lived a king who was always at war with his neighbours, which was very strange, as he was a good and kind man, quite content with his own country, and not wanting to seize land belonging to other people. Who acts: king, war, land. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/8/) [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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/) / 8 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 8 Once upon a time there lived a king who was always at war with his neighbours, which was very strange, as he was a good and kind man, quite content with his own country, and not wanting to seize land belonging to other people. **Who acts:** king, war, land · **What happens:** live, be, not want, seize, belong · **To what, where:** king, war, good man, land This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, war, land), 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:pg3027:27:8 # text = Once upon a time there lived a king who was always at war with his neighbours, which was very strange, as he was a good and kind man, quite content with his own country, and not wanting to seize land belonging to other people. 1 Once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 6 advmod _ _ 2 upon upon ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 6 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 13 advmod _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 14 with with 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 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 27 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 30 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 quite quite DET PDT PronType=Ind 33 det:predet _ _ 33 content content NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 wanting want VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 seize seize VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 44 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 45 belonging belong VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 44 acl _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | | a king | | there | time | once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location | | 2 | **is** | past | a king | | | war | | with king's neighbours; always *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | war | | | | | strange *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | past | king | a good man | | | | quite content with king's own country *nmod* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **want** | gerund | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **seize** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | land | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | | 7 | **belong** | gerund | land *not said here* | | | | | to other people | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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:** «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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/9/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/)