--- title: Not very long after, the Princess had a baby, a little boy, but when… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Not very long after, the Princess had a baby, a little boy, but when the King her father heard of it he was very angry and afraid, for now the child was born that should be his death. Who acts: Princess, King, that. 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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 (Princess, King, that), 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:pg503:27:8 # text = Not very long after, the Princess had a baby, a little boy, but when the King her father heard of it he was very angry and afraid, for now the child was born that should be his death. 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 2 very very ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 4 after after ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 very very ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 parataxis _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 for for SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 33 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 38 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 42 nsubj _ _ 39 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 cop _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the Princess | a baby and a little boy | | | | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | | 2 | **hear** | past | the King Princess's father | | | | | of shower | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | past | king | | | | | angry *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | king *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **bear** | past · passive | | the child | | | now | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **is a** | should | that | king's death | | | | | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/9/) - ↑ back to [The Terrible Head](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/)