--- title: 'Sire,' answered the attendant, when the king inquired what was the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'Sire,' answered the attendant, when the king inquired what was the matter, 'the noise you heard was caused by a young man from the town, who has had the impudence to come here to ask if he may measure your majesty's foot, so as to make you another slipper in place of the lost one.' Who acts: Sire, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/86/) [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/) / 86 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 86 'Sire,' answered the attendant, when the king inquired what was the matter, 'the noise you heard was caused by a young man from the town, who has had the impudence to come here to ask if he may measure your majesty's foot, so as to make you another slipper in place of the lost one.' **Who acts:** Sire, king, you, young man, town · **What happens:** answer, inquire, be, hear, cause, have · **To what, where:** attendant, matter, noise, impudence, foot, slipper 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 (Sire, king, you, young man), 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:pg3027:37:86 # text = 'Sire,' answered the attendant, when the king inquired what was the matter, 'the noise you heard was caused by a young man from the town, who has had the impudence to come here to ask if he may measure your majesty's foot, so as to make you another slipper in place of the lost one.' 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Sire sire NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 attendant attendant NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 inquired inquire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 16 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 appos _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 34 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 acl:relcl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 impudence impudence NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 acl _ _ 40 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 advcl _ _ 43 if if SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 measure measure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 ccomp _ _ 47 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 49 's 's PART POS _ 48 case _ _ 50 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 52 so so ADV RB _ 55 advmod _ _ 53 as as SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 54 to to PART TO _ 55 mark _ _ 55 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 56 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 55 obj _ _ 57 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 58 det _ _ 58 slipper slipper NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obj _ _ 59 in in ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 60 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obl _ _ 61 of of ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 63 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 64 amod _ _ 64 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 65 . . PUNCT . _ 55 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 66 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 55 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Sire | the attendant | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent attendant=Eventuality | | 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | the king | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | past | | the matter | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hear** | past | you | the noise *not said here* | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | | 5 | **cause** | past · passive | a young man from the town | the noise | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | | 6 | **have** | present · perfect | the town | the impudence | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impudence=Patient | | 7 | **come** | to-infinitive | the town *not said here* | the impudence *not said here* | | here | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | the town *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **measure** *a condition, not said to happen* | may | king | your majesty's foot | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme foot=Value | | 10 | **make** | to-infinitive | | another slipper | you | place of the lost one | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary slipper=Product | | 11 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/87/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/)