--- title: When peace was made, and the king returned, he was told that his wif… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When peace was made, and the king returned, he was told that his wife had had two babies in his absence, but that both were dead; that she herself had gone out of her mind and was obliged to be shut up in a tower in the mountains, where, in time, the fresh air might cure her.' Who acts: king, wife, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/15/) [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 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/) / 15 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 15 When peace was made, and the king returned, he was told that his wife had had two babies in his absence, but that both were dead; that she herself had gone out of her mind and was obliged to be shut up in a tower in the mountains, where, in time, the fresh air might cure her.' **Who acts:** king, wife, both, that, fresh air · **What happens:** make, return, tell, have, be, go out · **To what, where:** peace, king, two babies, absence, mind, tower · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, wife, both, that), 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:pg3027:33:15 # text = When peace was made, and the king returned, he was told that his wife had had two babies in his absence, but that both were dead; that she herself had gone out of her mind and was obliged to be shut up in a tower in the mountains, where, in time, the fresh air might cure her.' 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 63 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 ccomp _ _ 19 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 absence absence NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 29 nsubj _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 31 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 nsubj _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 35 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 36 out out ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 obliged oblige VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 44 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 45 aux:pass _ _ 45 shut shut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 xcomp _ _ 46 up up ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 54 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 56 in in ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 60 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 61 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 nsubj _ _ 62 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 63 aux _ _ 63 cure cure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 64 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 63 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 65 . . PUNCT . _ 63 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 66 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 63 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past · passive | | peace | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **return** | past | the king | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | king | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **have** | past · perfect | king's wife | two babies | | king's absence | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | | 5 | **is** | past | both | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **go out** | past · perfect | that | wife's mind | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **oblige** | past · passive | | | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: clause=Result | | 8 | **shut up** | to-infinitive · passive | | | | a tower | time | in the mountains | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP» | | 9 | **cure** | might | the fresh air | wife | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source | | 10 | **absent** | | king | | | | | | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 11 | **mind** | | wife | | | | | | nom mind «cognition 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/16/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/)