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title: The King was pleased beyond measure at the sights but his greed for… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King was pleased beyond measure at the sights but his greed for gold was still not satisfied, and he had the miller’s daughter brought into a yet bigger room full of straw, and said: “You must spin all this away in the night; but if you succeed this time you shall become my wife.” Who acts: King
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 209

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The King was pleased beyond measure at the sights but his greed for gold was still not satisfied, and he had the miller’s daughter brought into a yet bigger room full of straw, and said: “You must spin all this away in the night; but if you succeed this time you shall become my wife.”

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**Who acts:** King, greed, daughter, You · **What happens:** be, not be, have, bring, say, spin away · **To what, where:** sights, bigger room, this, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, greed, daughter, You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg503:13:209
# text = The King was pleased beyond measure at the sights but his greed for gold was still not satisfied, and he had the miller’s daughter brought into a yet bigger room full of straw, and said: “You must spin all this away in the night; but if you succeed this time you shall become my wife.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sights	sight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	greed	greed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	_
32	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
40	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	spin	spin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	ccomp	_	_
44	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	45	det:predet	_	_
45	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	obj	_	_
46	away	away	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
51	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
52	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
53	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	succeed	succeed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	advcl	_	_
55	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	56	det	_	_
56	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
57	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
58	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
60	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the King |  |  | the sights |  | beyond measure; pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | King's greed for gold |  |  |  | still | satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | past | the miller's daughter |  |  | a bigger room |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into room=Destination |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the miller's daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **spin away** *in a quote* | must | You | this |  |  | night | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 7 | **succeed** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **become** *in a quote* | shall | you | my wife |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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.

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