--- title: The King followed this advice, and the minister’s son was presented… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King followed this advice, and the minister’s son was presented with a splendid horse and a purse full of gold pieces, while the gardener’s son had only an old lame horse and a purse full of copper money, and every one thought he would never come back from his journey. 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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, son, one), 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:pg503:2:27 # text = The King followed this advice, and the minister’s son was presented with a splendid horse and a purse full of gold pieces, while the gardener’s son had only an old lame horse and a purse full of copper money, and every one thought he would never come back from his journey. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 5 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’s 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 presented present VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ’s 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 32 only only ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 33 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 lame lame NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 40 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 46 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 47 det _ _ 47 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 48 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 49 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 50 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 51 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 52 advmod _ _ 52 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 ccomp _ _ 53 back back ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 54 from from ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 56 nmod:poss _ _ 56 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | past | the King | this advice | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | | 2 | **present** | past · passive | | the minister's son | | | | with a splendid horse and a purse | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with horse=Theme | | 3 | **have** | past | the gardener's son | a old lame horse and a purse | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | every one | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **not** **come back** | would | king | | | king's journey | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from journey=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **journey** | | king | | | | | | nom journey «act 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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/28/) - ↑ back to [The Bronze Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/)