--- title: He was tall and handsome and, though he professed to make shoes, his… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He was tall and handsome and, though he professed to make shoes, his manners were good and modest, and he bowed low as he begged the king not only to allow him to take the measure of his foot, but also to suffer him to place a healing plaster over the wound. Who acts: youth, manners. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, manners), 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:pg3027:38:8 # text = He was tall and handsome and, though he professed to make shoes, his manners were good and modest, and he bowed low as he begged the king not only to allow him to take the measure of his foot, but also to suffer him to place a healing plaster over the wound. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 though though SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 professed profess VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 manners manners NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 18 nsubj _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 modest modest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 bowed bow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 as as SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 32 only only ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 allow allow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 iobj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 measure measure NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 but but CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 also also ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 suffer suffer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 48 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 xcomp _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 52 healing healing NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 compound _ _ 53 plaster plaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl:unmarked _ _ 54 over over ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 wound wound NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | youth | | | | | tall *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | youth *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **profess** | past | youth | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | youth *not said here* | shoes | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shoe=Product | | 5 | **is** | past | youth's manners | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | youth's manners *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **bow** | past | youth | | | | | low *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | youth | | the king | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | | 9 | **not** **allow** | to-infinitive | youth *not said here* | | youth | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 10 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | youth *not said here* | the measure of youth's foot | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Theme | | 11 | **suffer** | to-infinitive | youth *not said here* | youth | | the wound | | a healing plaster *obl:unmarked* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 12 | **measure** | | | youth's foot | | | | | nom measure «act 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/9/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/)