--- title: At these words the king, who had been feeling rather uncomfortable,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At these words the king, who had been feeling rather uncomfortable, took heart again, for had he not prepared two beautiful tombs for his son to see, so that he might never, never guess what had been done to his wife? Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fai --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/118/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/) / 118 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 118 At these words the king, who had been feeling rather uncomfortable, took heart again, for had he not prepared two beautiful tombs for his son to see, so that he might never, never guess what had been done to his wife? **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** feel, take, have, see, not guess, do · **To what, where:** heart, words, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg3454:21:118 # text = At these words the king, who had been feeling rather uncomfortable, took heart again, for had he not prepared two beautiful tombs for his son to see, so that he might never, never guess what had been done to his wife? 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 aux _ _ 10 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 11 rather rather ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 uncomfortable uncomfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 14 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 again again ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 prepared prepared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 23 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 24 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 tombs tomb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 32 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 35 mark _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 36 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 38 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 guess guess VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 40 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 43 obj _ _ 41 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 ccomp _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past · perfect · progressive | the king | | | | | uncomfortable *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **take** | past | | heart | | this words | again | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent heart=Theme at word=Asset | | 3 | **have** | past | | king | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **not** **guess** | might | | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **do** | past · perfect · passive | | | | | | to king's wife | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality | 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 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/117/) - next →: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/119/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/)