--- title: The king-lion came out to meet him; he took the negro chief’s daught… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The king-lion came out to meet him; he took the negro chief’s daughter—-whose name was also Gul—in lawful marriage, and then marched with her and her possessions and her attendants to the Place of Gifts. Who acts: king lion, lion, name, Gul. 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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 lion, lion, name, Gul), 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:pg3282:5:138 # text = The king-lion came out to meet him; he took the negro chief’s daughter—-whose name was also Gul—in lawful marriage, and then marched with her and her possessions and her attendants to the Place of Gifts. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 out out ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 negro negro ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 chief chief NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ’s 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 — - PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 also also ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 Gul Gul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 — - PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 lawful lawful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 32 marched march VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 possessions possession NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 attendants attendant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 Place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 Gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come out** | past | the king lion | | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the king lion *not said here* | lion | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 3 | **take** | past | lion | | the negro chief's daughter | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument daughter=Destination | | 4 | **is a** | past | Gul's name | Gul | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **march** | past | lion *not said here* | | | | then | with Gul; to the Place of Gifts *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=Result | | 6 | **name** | | Gul | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **possess** | | Gul | | | | | | nom possession «act 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 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/5/137/) - next →: [sentence 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/5/139/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/5/)