--- title: When the king got the governor’s letter, he grew so red in the face… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the king got the governor’s letter, he grew so red in the face that everyone thought he was going to have apoplexy. Who acts: king, everyone, governor. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, with its dependency tree and the pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/183/) [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/) / 183 # The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 183 When the king got the governor’s letter, he grew so red in the face that everyone thought he was going to have apoplexy. **Who acts:** king, everyone, governor · **What happens:** get, grow, think, go, have, letter · **To what, where:** letter, apoplexy · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (king, everyone, governor), 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:pg3282:33:183 # text = When the king got the governor’s letter, he grew so red in the face that everyone thought he was going to have apoplexy. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 governor governor NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’s 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 19 nsubj _ _ 19 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 ccomp _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 apoplexy apoplexy NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | the king | the governor's letter | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus | | 2 | **grow** | past | king | | | | | red *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | everyone | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **go** | past · progressive | king | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **have** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | apoplexy | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apoplexy=Patient | | 6 | **letter** | | the governor | | | | | | nom letter «communication 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 182](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/182/) - next →: [sentence 184](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/184/) - ↑ back to [Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/)