--- title: Now it happened one day that he had an audience with the King, and i… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now it happened one day that he had an audience with the King, and in order to appear a person of some importance he told him that he had a daughter who could spin straw into gold. Who acts: it, miller, person, daughter. 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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 (it, miller, person, daughter), 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:pg503:13:192 # text = Now it happened one day that he had an audience with the King, and in order to appear a person of some importance he told him that he had a daughter who could spin straw into gold. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 audience audience NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 in in SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 19 mark _ _ 17 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 fixed _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 appear appear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 importance importance NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 34 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 spin spin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl:relcl _ _ 36 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 into into ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | it | | | | now; day | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | past | miller | a audience | | | | with the King | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent audience=Patient | | 3 | **appear** | to-infinitive | miller *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a person of some importance | | miller | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **have** | past | miller | a daughter | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | | 6 | **spin** | could | a daughter | straw | | gold | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent straw=Theme into gold=Trajectory | 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 191](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/191/) - next →: [sentence 193](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/193/) - ↑ back to [The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/)