--- title: Time flew by, the king again and again begged the prince to ask some… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Time flew by, the king again and again begged the prince to ask some gift of him, and always received this same reply: “I wish for your Majesty’s welfare, what more can I desire?” Who acts: Time. 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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 (Time), 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:pg3282:5:13 # text = Time flew by, the king again and again begged the prince to ask some gift of him, and always received this same reply: “I wish for your Majesty’s welfare, what more can I desire?” 1 Time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 again again ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 22 advmod _ _ 22 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 24 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 reply reply NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 “ " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’s 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 welfare welfare NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 40 obj _ _ 37 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 amod _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 desire desire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | past | Time | | | | again | by the king | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by king=Location | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Time *not said here* | | the prince | | again | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Time *not said here* | some gift of king | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gift=Recipient | | 4 | **receive** | past | Time *not said here* | this same reply | | | | always *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Theme | | 5 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | Time | | | | | for your Majesty's welfare | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for welfare=Theme | | 6 | **desire** *in a quote* | can | Time | your Majesty's welfare | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | | 7 | **gift** | | | king | | | | | nom gift «possession 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 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/5/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/5/14/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/5/)