--- title: “Honored King,” said the wizard, “the wind has blown this illness up… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Honored King,” said the wizard, “the wind has blown this illness upon your son, and a magic ball has snatched away his beloved. Who acts: wizard. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/59/) [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 Water-lily. the Gold-spinners](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/) / 59 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 59 “Honored King,” said the wizard, “the wind has blown this illness upon your son, and a magic ball has snatched away his beloved. **Who acts:** wizard · **What happens:** honor, say, blow, snatch away · **To what, where:** King, wind, magic ball · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wizard), 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:pg503:26:59 # text = “Honored King,” said the wizard, “the wind has blown this illness upon your son, and a magic ball has snatched away his beloved. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Honored honor VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 ccomp _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 wizard wizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 blown blow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 15 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 upon upon ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 snatched snatch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 27 away away ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 beloved beloved ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **honor** *in a quote* | participle | | King | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the wizard | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **blow** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | the wind | | | | upon your son | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary illness=Product | | 4 | **snatch away** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | a magic ball | | | | away, beloved *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/60/) - ↑ back to [The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/)