--- title: As the king entered, he noticed that there was no furniture in the r… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As the king entered, he noticed that there was no furniture in the room at all, not even a chair, so he pretended to be in too great a hurry to see anything around him, and only said ‘You must not let me disturb you. Who acts: king, furniture, You, me. 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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 (king, furniture, You, me), 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:pg3454:7:30 # text = As the king entered, he noticed that there was no furniture in the room at all, not even a chair, so he pretended to be in too great a hurry to see anything around him, and only said ‘You must not let me disturb you. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 10 expl _ _ 10 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 12 furniture furniture NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 20 even even ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 pretended pretend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 too too ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hurry hurry NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 ccomp _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl _ _ 36 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 35 obj _ _ 37 around around ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 only only ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 43 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 45 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 46 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 47 advmod _ _ 47 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 ccomp _ _ 48 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ _ 49 disturb disturb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 xcomp _ _ 50 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** | past | the king | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **notice** | past | king | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **be** | past | no furniture in the room at all and a chair | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pretend** | past | king | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | | | a great hurry | | | tree rules | | 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | anything | | | | around king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle | king *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **not** **let** | must | You | me | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **disturb** | infinitive | me *not said here* | you | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/7/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/7/31/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/7/)