--- title: The king could bear the sight no more, and, besides, now that the he… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The king could bear the sight no more, and, besides, now that the healing ointment in the shoe had been removed the pain in his foot was as bad as ever; he gave a sudden cry, staggered, and fell over the bulwarks into the water. Who acts: king, foot. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew L --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/66/) [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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/) / 66 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 66 The king could bear the sight no more, and, besides, now that the healing ointment in the shoe had been removed the pain in his foot was as bad as ever; he gave a sudden cry, staggered, and fell over the bulwarks into the water. **Who acts:** king, foot · **What happens:** bear, remove, be, give, stagger, fall · **To what, where:** sight, healing ointment, pain, sudden cry, bulwarks 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, foot), 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:pg3027:37:66 # text = The king could bear the sight no more, and, besides, now that the healing ointment in the shoe had been removed the pain in his foot was as bad as ever; he gave a sudden cry, staggered, and fell over the bulwarks into the water. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 no no ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 besides besides INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 14 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 healing healing NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 ointment ointment NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 removed remove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 in in SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 as as ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 acl _ _ 33 as as ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 staggered stagger VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 46 over over ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 bulwarks bulwark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ _ 49 into into ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | could | the king | the sight | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Patient | | 2 | **remove** | past · perfect · passive | | the healing ointment in the shoe | | | now | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | king's foot | the pain *not said here* | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **give** | past | king | a sudden cry | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme | | 5 | **stagger** | past | king *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **fall** | past | king *not said here* | | | the bulwarks | | into the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over bulwark=Initial\_Location into water=Destination | 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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/67/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/)