--- title: Then the king on the throne called him to come forward, and, as he w… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the king on the throne called him to come forward, and, as he went, he caught sight of himself reflected in the polished steel shield of the bodyguard, and started back in horror! Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/3/57/) [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/) / 57 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 57 Then the king on the throne called him to come forward, and, as he went, he caught sight of himself reflected in the polished steel shield of the bodyguard, and started back in horror! **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** call, come forward, go, catch, reflect, polish · **To what, where:** chamberlain, sight, polished steel shield, horror, King · **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), 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:pg3027:3:57 # text = Then the king on the throne called him to come forward, and, as he went, he caught sight of himself reflected in the polished steel shield of the bodyguard, and started back in horror! 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 11 forward forward ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 21 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 nmod _ _ 24 reflected reflect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 polished polish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 amod _ _ 28 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 shield shield NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 bodyguard bodyguard NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 36 back back ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 horror horror NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | the king on the throne | chamberlain | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **come forward** | to-infinitive | the king on the throne *not said here* | | | | | forward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **go** | past | King | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **catch** | past | King | sight of King | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | | 5 | **reflect** | participle | | sight of King *not said here* | | the polished steel shield of the bodyguard | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **polish** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **start back** | past | King *not said here* | | | horror | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 8 | **sight** | | | King | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/3/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/3/58/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/3/)