--- title: The King looked at him, and because he pleased him, he said: “You ca… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King looked at him, and because he pleased him, he said: “You can ask for three things, none of them living, and those you may take with you into the castle.” Who acts: King, You, those. 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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, You, those), 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:pg503:13:85 # text = The King looked at him, and because he pleased him, he said: “You can ask for three things, none of them living, and those you may take with you into the castle.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advcl _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 22 appos _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nmod _ _ 27 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 33 nsubj _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 36 into into ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ” " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | the King | | | | | at Many | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | can | You | | | | | for three things | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **live** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **take** *in a quote* | may | those | | | the castle | | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into castle=Destination | 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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/86/) - ↑ 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/)