--- title: The King, to avoid the misfortune foretold by the old Fairy, caused… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King, to avoid the misfortune foretold by the old Fairy, caused immediately proclamation to be made, whereby everybody was forbidden, on pain of death, to spin with a distaff and spindle, or to have so much as any spindle in their houses. Who acts: 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 (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:pg503:10:20 # text = The King, to avoid the misfortune foretold by the old Fairy, caused immediately proclamation to be made, whereby everybody was forbidden, on pain of death, to spin with a distaff and spindle, or to have so much as any spindle in their houses. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 avoid avoid VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 misfortune misfortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 foretold foretell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 14 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 proclamation proclamation NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 whereby whereby ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 22 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 forbidden forbid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 spin spin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 distaff distaff NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 spindle spindle NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 42 so so ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 obj _ _ 44 as as ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 46 det _ _ 46 spindle spindle NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | | the misfortune | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent misfortune=Location | | 2 | **foretell** | participle | | the misfortune *not said here* | | | | by the old Fairy | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cause** | past | the King | proclamation | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition proclamation=Patient | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | the King *not said here* | proclamation *not said here* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | | 5 | **forbid** | past · passive | | everybody | | pain of death | | whereby *property* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **spin** | to-infinitive | | | | | | with a distaff and spindle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **have** | to-infinitive | | much | | | | as any spindle in king's houses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | | 8 | **pain** | | | death | | | | | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/21/) - ↑ back to [The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/)