--- title: Now as nobody had appeared to demand the hand of the princess, the k… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now as nobody had appeared to demand the hand of the princess, the king ordered another race to be run, and the fisher’s son rode into the field still more splendidly dressed than he was before, and easily distanced everybody else. Who acts: nobody, king, son, race. 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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 (nobody, king, son, race), 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:pg3454:17:47 # text = Now as nobody had appeared to demand the hand of the princess, the king ordered another race to be run, and the fisher’s son rode into the field still more splendidly dressed than he was before, and easily distanced everybody else. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 appeared appear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 demand demand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 17 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 18 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 run run VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fisher fisher NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ’s 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 29 into into ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 still still ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 35 advmod _ _ 34 splendidly splendidly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 advcl _ _ 36 than than SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 before before ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 easily easily ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 distanced distance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 44 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 43 obj _ _ 45 else else ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | past · perfect | nobody | | | | now | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | the hand of the princess | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hand=Precondition | | 3 | **order** | past | the king | another race | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent race=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **run** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | the king *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V» | | 5 | **ride** | past | the fisher's son | | | the field | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into field=Trajectory | | 6 | **dress** | participle | the fisher's son *not said here* | | | | | splendidly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | past | race | | | | | before *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **distance** | past | the fisher's son *not said here* | everybody | | | | easily *property* | tree rules | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/17/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/17/48/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/17/)