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title: So king Balancin had to content himself with ordering the physician… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So king Balancin had to content himself with ordering the physician to be treated with royal honours, and desiring that an escort should attend him on his journey home. Who acts: king, escort. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 46

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So king Balancin had to content himself with ordering the physician to be treated with royal honours, and desiring that an escort should attend him on his journey home.

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**Who acts:** king, escort · **What happens:** have, content, order, treat, desire, attend · **To what, where:** king, physician, journey

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, escort), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg3027:37:46
# text = So king Balancin had to content himself with ordering the physician to be treated with royal honours, and desiring that an escort should attend him on his journey home.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Balancin	Balancin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	content	content	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	ordering	order	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	physician	physician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	honours	honour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	desiring	desire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	escort	escort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	home	home	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **content** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | king |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 3 | **order** | gerund | king *not said here* | the physician |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent physician=Theme |
| 4 | **treat** | to-infinitive · passive | king *not said here* | the physician *not said here* |  |  |  | with royal honours | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: with honour=Theme |
| 5 | **desire** | gerund | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **attend** | should | a escort |  | king | king's journey |  | home *property* | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Goal |
| 7 | **journey** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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.

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