--- title: And now the King, who came up at the noise, bethought himself of the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And now the King, who came up at the noise, bethought himself of the prediction of the fairies, and, judging very well that this must necessarily come to pass, since the fairies had said it, caused the Princess to be carried into the finest apartment in his palace, and to be laid upon a bed all embr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/30/) [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 Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/) / 30 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 30 And now the King, who came up at the noise, bethought himself of the prediction of the fairies, and, judging very well that this must necessarily come to pass, since the fairies had said it, caused the Princess to be carried into the finest apartment in his palace, and to be laid upon a bed all embroidered with gold and silver. **Who acts:** King, this · **What happens:** come up, bethink, judge, come, pass, say · **To what, where:** noise, decree, fairies, Princess, finest apartment, bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, this), 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:pg503:10:30 # text = And now the King, who came up at the noise, bethought himself of the prediction of the fairies, and, judging very well that this must necessarily come to pass, since the fairies had said it, caused the Princess to be carried into the finest apartment in his palace, and to be laid upon a bed all embroidered with gold and silver. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 up up ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 bethought bethink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 13 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 prediction prediction NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 judging judge VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 advcl _ _ 25 very very ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 nsubj _ _ 29 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 necessarily necessarily ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 since since SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 advcl _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 46 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 47 aux:pass _ _ 47 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 acl _ _ 48 into into ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 finest fine ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 51 amod _ _ 51 apartment apartment NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 52 in in ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 54 nmod:poss _ _ 54 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 57 to to PART TO _ 59 mark _ _ 58 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 59 aux:pass _ _ 59 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 conj _ _ 60 upon upon ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 61 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 obl _ _ 63 all all ADV RB _ 64 advmod _ _ 64 embroidered embroider VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 59 advcl _ _ 65 with with ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 66 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obl _ _ 67 and and CCONJ CC _ 68 cc _ _ 68 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come up** | past | the King | | | the noise | now | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at noise=Location | | 2 | **bethink** | past | the King *not said here* | decree | | | | of the prediction of the fairies | tree rules | | 3 | **judge** | gerund | | | | | | well *property* | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come** | must | this | | | | | necessarily *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **pass** | to-infinitive | this *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | | the fairies | | | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme it=Manner | | 7 | **cause** | past | | the Princess | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition princess=Patient | | 8 | **carry** | to-infinitive · passive | | the Princess *not said here* | | the finest apartment in decree's palace | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» | | 9 | **lay** | to-infinitive · passive | | | | a bed | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: upon bed=Destination | | 10 | **embroider** | participle | | | | | | with gold and silver; all *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme | | 11 | **predict** | | | the fairies | | | | | nom prediction «cognition 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/31/) - ↑ back to [The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/)