--- title: Happily for him, he began with the island that was nearest, and here… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Happily for him, he began with the island that was nearest, and here in the forest he suddenly saw standing before him the iron tree, its boughs covered with shining leaves like the one he carried about him. Who acts: king, island, forest. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lil --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/22/98/) [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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/22/) / 98 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 98 Happily for him, he began with the island that was nearest, and here in the forest he suddenly saw standing before him the iron tree, its boughs covered with shining leaves like the one he carried about him. **Who acts:** king, island, forest · **What happens:** begin, be, see, stand, cover, carry · **To what, where:** forest, iron tree, boughs, one This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, island, forest), 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:pg3454:22:98 # text = Happily for him, he began with the island that was nearest, and here in the forest he suddenly saw standing before him the iron tree, its boughs covered with shining leaves like the one he carried about him. 1 Happily happily ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 parataxis _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ _ 23 before before ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 boughs bough NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 appos _ _ 31 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 shining shining NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 35 like like ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 40 about about ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | king | | | | | with the island; happily *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with island=Subeventuality | | 2 | **is** | past | the island | | | | | near *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | past | king | the forest *not said here* | | | | suddenly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **stand** | gerund | the forest *not said here* | the iron tree | | | before king | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme before he=Destination | | 5 | **cover** | participle | | island's boughs *not said here* | | | | with shining leaves like the one | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with leaf=Theme | | 6 | **carry** | past | king | the one *not said here* | | | | about cock | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/22/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/22/99/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/22/)