--- title: So, when the young couple arrived, the king received them with all s… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So, when the young couple arrived, the king received them with all state, and gave his son-in-law a province to govern. Who acts: young couple, king. 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 pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/188/) [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/) / 188 # The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 188 So, when the young couple arrived, the king received them with all state, and gave his son-in-law a province to govern. **Who acts:** young couple, king · **What happens:** arrive, receive, give, govern · **To what, where:** people, province, son, law 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 (young couple, 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:pg3282:33:188 # text = So, when the young couple arrived, the king received them with all state, and gave his son-in-law a province to govern. 1 So so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 when when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 province province NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 govern govern VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrive** | past | the young couple | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **receive** | past | the king | people | | | | with all state | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **give** | past | the young couple *not said here* | a province | king's son | law | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent son=Recipient province=Theme | | 4 | **govern** | to-infinitive | the young couple *not said here* | | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: 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 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 187](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/187/) - next →: [sentence 189](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/189/) - ↑ back to [Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/)