--- title: Well, he had fallen very ill when he was on the furthest border of t… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Well, he had fallen very ill when he was on the furthest border of the kingdom, and he was nursed by some kind people who did not know who he was, so that the king and queen heard nothing about him. Who acts: prince, kind people, 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 (prince, kind people, 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:pg3454:21:102 # text = Well, he had fallen very ill when he was on the furthest border of the kingdom, and he was nursed by some kind people who did not know who he was, so that the king and queen heard nothing about him. 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 furthest furth ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 14 border border NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 nursed nurse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 26 det _ _ 25 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 28 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 acl:relcl _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Int 30 ccomp _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 41 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 42 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 41 obj _ _ 43 about about ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past · perfect | prince | | | | | ill *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | prince | | | the furthest border | | of the kingdom | tree rules | | 3 | **nurse** | past · passive | some kind people | prince | | | | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | | 4 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | some kind people | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is a** | past | prince | some kind people | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **hear** | past | the king and queen | nothing | | | | about prince | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | 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 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/101/) - next →: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/103/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/)