--- title: So he went on just as before, and made friends whom he taught to be… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So he went on just as before, and made friends whom he taught to be as wicked as himself, till they took to robbing the king’s storehouses, and by the advice of the Wise Man the king sent out soldiers to catch the band of thieves. Who acts: life, friends, king. 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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 (life, friends, 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:pg3454:2:88 # text = So he went on just as before, and made friends whom he taught to be as wicked as himself, till they took to robbing the king’s storehouses, and by the advice of the Wise Man the king sent out soldiers to catch the band of thieves. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 just just ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 as as ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 before before ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 obj _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 cop _ _ 17 as as ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 till till SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 robbing rob VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ’s 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 storehouses storehouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 Wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 Man Man PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 43 out out ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 44 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 advcl _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 band band NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 thieves thief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go on** | past | life | | | | | before *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **make** | past | life *not said here* | friends | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product | | 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | life | | friends | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | as life; wicked *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **take** | past | friends *= friend* | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **rob** | gerund | friends *= friend* *not said here* | the king's storehouses | | | | | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storehouse=Source | | 7 | **send out** | participle | the king | soldiers | | | | by the advice of the Wise Man | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme | | 8 | **catch** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | the band of thieves | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Theme | 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 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/2/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/2/89/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/2/)