--- title: Time went on, and the king always sent the old fakeer his food accor… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Time went on, and the king always sent the old fakeer his food according to his promise; but, whenever he sent to ask him when he was going to show him Paradise, the fakeer always replied: 'Not yet, not yet!' Who acts: king, food, fakeer, Paradise. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/3/28/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/3/) / 28 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 28 Time went on, and the king always sent the old fakeer his food according to his promise; but, whenever he sent to ask him when he was going to show him Paradise, the fakeer always replied: 'Not yet, not yet!' **Who acts:** king, food, fakeer, Paradise · **What happens:** go on, send, accord, ask, go, show · **To what, where:** old fakeer, promise, fakeer · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, food, fakeer, Paradise), 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:pg3027:3:28 # text = Time went on, and the king always sent the old fakeer his food according to his promise; but, whenever he sent to ask him when he was going to show him Paradise, the fakeer always replied: 'Not yet, not yet!' 1 Time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 9 advmod _ _ 9 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 fakeer fakeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 according accord VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 whenever whenever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 24 advmod _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 iobj _ _ 35 Paradise Paradise PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 fakeer fakeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 39 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 40 advmod _ _ 40 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 : : PUNCT : _ 44 punct _ _ 42 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 44 yet yet ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 47 advmod _ _ 47 yet yet ADV RB _ 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go on** | past | | | | | time | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **send** | past | the king | the old fakeer fakeer's food | | | | always *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fakeer=Theme | | 3 | **accord** | gerund | fakeer's food *not said here* | | | | | to fakeer's promise *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to promise=Goal | | 4 | **send** | past | fakeer | | | | yet | whenever *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | fakeer *not said here* | | fakeer | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 6 | **go** | past · progressive | fakeer | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **show** | to-infinitive | fakeer *not said here* | | fakeer | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 8 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Paradise | the fakeer | | | | always *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **promise** | | fakeer | | | | | | nom promise «communication 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/3/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/3/29/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/3/)