--- title: Then he drew forth the head from his wallet, and when the King’s eye… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he drew forth the head from his wallet, and when the King’s eyes fell on it, instantly he was turned into stone, just as he stood there with his sword lifted! Who acts: king, eyes, sword. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head, with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/119/) [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 Terrible Head](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/) / 119 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 119 Then he drew forth the head from his wallet, and when the King’s eyes fell on it, instantly he was turned into stone, just as he stood there with his sword lifted! **Who acts:** king, eyes, sword · **What happens:** draw, fall, turn, stand, lift · **To what, where:** head, king, stone This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, eyes, sword), 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:pg503:27:119 # text = Then he drew forth the head from his wallet, and when the King’s eyes fell on it, instantly he was turned into stone, just as he stood there with his sword lifted! 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 forth forth ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 wallet wallet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ’s 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 instantly instantly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 parataxis _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 just just ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 32 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 33 with with SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** | past | king | the head | | | then | from king's wallet; forth *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from wallet=Co-Patient | | 2 | **fall** | past | the King's eyes | | | Head | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on it=Location | | 3 | **turn** | past · passive | | king | | stone | | instantly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into stone=Trajectory | | 4 | **stand** | past | king | | | there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **lift** | past | king's sword | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/118/) - next →: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/120/) - ↑ back to [The Terrible Head](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/)