--- title: The princess accepted gladly, and was actually staying in the govern… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The princess accepted gladly, and was actually staying in the governor’s house at the very time when the king made up his mind to send Nur Mahomed there with the mysterious despatch. Who acts: princess, king. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronge --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/121/) [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 Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronge…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/) / 121 # The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 121 The princess accepted gladly, and was actually staying in the governor’s house at the very time when the king made up his mind to send Nur Mahomed there with the mysterious despatch. **Who acts:** princess, king · **What happens:** accept, stay, make up, send, mind · **To what, where:** mind, house, Nur This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, king), 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:pg3282:33:121 # text = The princess accepted gladly, and was actually staying in the governor’s house at the very time when the king made up his mind to send Nur Mahomed there with the mysterious despatch. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 accepted accept VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 gladly gladly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 actually actually ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 staying stay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 governor governor NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’s 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 very very ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 28 Nur Nur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 Mahomed Mahomed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ _ 30 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 mysterious mysterious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 despatch despatch NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accept** | past | the princess | | | | | gladly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stay** | past · progressive | the princess *not said here* | king's mind | | the governor's house | time | actually *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme mind=Location | | 3 | **make up** | participle | the king | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **send** | to-infinitive | the princess *not said here* | Nur | | there | | with the mysterious despatch | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nur=Theme | | 5 | **mind** | | king | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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 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 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/120/) - next →: [sentence 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/122/) - ↑ back to [Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/)