--- title: The King smiled, and went to draw back the curtains himself, but at… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King smiled, and went to draw back the curtains himself, but at a touch from the Princess the crystal shivered into a thousand splinters, and there she stood in all her beauty; her fair hair floated over her shoulders and was crowned with flowers, and her softly falling robe was of the purest wh --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/25/23/) [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 White Cat, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/25/) / 23 # The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 23 The King smiled, and went to draw back the curtains himself, but at a touch from the Princess the crystal shivered into a thousand splinters, and there she stood in all her beauty; her fair hair floated over her shoulders and was crowned with flowers, and her softly falling robe was of the purest white. **Who acts:** King, crystal, falling robe · **What happens:** smile, go, draw back, shiver, stand, float · **To what, where:** curtains, fair hair, beauty, shoulders This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, crystal, falling robe), 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:pg503:25:23 # text = The King smiled, and went to draw back the curtains himself, but at a touch from the Princess the crystal shivered into a thousand splinters, and there she stood in all her beauty; her fair hair floated over her shoulders and was crowned with flowers, and her softly falling robe was of the purest white. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 smiled smile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 back back ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 curtains curtain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 crystal crystal NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 shivered shiver VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 splinters splinter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 det:predet _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 41 floated float VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl _ _ 42 over over ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux:pass _ _ 47 crowned crown VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 conj _ _ 48 with with ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 52 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 53 softly softly ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 54 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 55 amod _ _ 55 robe robe NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nsubj _ _ 56 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 60 cop _ _ 57 of of ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 59 purest pure ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 60 amod _ _ 60 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smile** | past | the King | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go** | past | the King *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **draw back** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | the curtains King | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme | | 4 | **shiver** | participle | the crystal | | | | | into thousand splinters; at a touch from the Princess | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at touch=Stimulus | | 5 | **stand** | past | crystal | crystal's fair hair | | crystal's beauty; there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in beauty=Location | | 6 | **float** | participle | | crystal's fair hair *not said here* | | crystal's shoulders | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over shoulder=Trajectory | | 7 | **crown** | past · passive | crystal *not said here* | | | | | with flowers | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with flower=Theme | | 8 | **fall** | gerund | | | | | | softly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **is** | past | crystal's falling robe | | | | | white *property* | tree rules | 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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/25/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/25/24/) - ↑ back to [The White Cat, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/25/)