--- title: But when the King was dead, which happened about two years afterward… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But when the King was dead, which happened about two years afterward, and he saw himself lord and master, he openly declared his marriage; and he went in great ceremony to conduct his Queen to the palace. Who acts: King, Prince. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/79/) [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/) / 79 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 79 But when the King was dead, which happened about two years afterward, and he saw himself lord and master, he openly declared his marriage; and he went in great ceremony to conduct his Queen to the palace. **Who acts:** King, Prince · **What happens:** be, happen, see, declare, go, conduct · **To what, where:** Prince, marriage, great ceremony, Queen, palace 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, Prince), 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:pg503:10:79 # text = But when the King was dead, which happened about two years afterward, and he saw himself lord and master, he openly declared his marriage; and he went in great ceremony to conduct his Queen to the palace. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 afterward afterward ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 17 obj _ _ 19 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 openly openly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 ceremony ceremony NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 conduct conduct VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the King | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **happen** | past | | | | | | afterward *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **see** | past | Prince | Prince | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Prince | Prince's marriage | | | | openly *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Attribute | | 5 | **go** | past | Prince | | | great ceremony | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ceremony=Location | | 6 | **conduct** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | Prince's Queen | | the palace | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent queen=Theme to palace=Destination | | 7 | **marry** | | Prince | | | | | | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/80/) - ↑ back to [The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/)