--- title: The king was more angry than ever when he received this message, and… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The king was more angry than ever when he received this message, and ordered his guards to go at once to the palace and put the successful wooer to death; but the princess threw herself between him and his murderers. Who acts: king, guards, princess. 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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 (king, guards, princess), 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:pg3282:25:51 # text = The king was more angry than ever when he received this message, and ordered his guards to go at once to the palace and put the successful wooer to death; but the princess threw herself between him and his murderers. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 5 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 than than SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 10 advmod _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 11 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 guards guard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 19 obl _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 successful successful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 wooer wooer NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 37 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 36 obj _ _ 38 between between ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 murderers murderer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the king | | | | | angry *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **receive** | past | king | this message | | | ever | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | | 3 | **order** | past | | king's guards | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | king's guards *not said here* | | | the palace | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **put** | infinitive | king's guards *not said here* | the successful wooer | | | | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wooer=Goal | | 6 | **throw** | past | the princess | princess | | | | between king | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme between he=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/25/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/25/52/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/25/)