--- title: When the ambassador reached the city, where the King was waiting imp… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the ambassador reached the city, where the King was waiting impatiently, everybody was very much annoyed with him for not bringing the Princess, and the King cried like a baby, and nobody could console him. Who acts: ambassador, King, everybody, nobody. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by An --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/12/) [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 Story of Pretty Goldilocks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/) / 12 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 12 When the ambassador reached the city, where the King was waiting impatiently, everybody was very much annoyed with him for not bringing the Princess, and the King cried like a baby, and nobody could console him. **Who acts:** ambassador, King, everybody, nobody · **What happens:** reach, wait, be, not bring, cry, console · **To what, where:** city, Princess, king This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ambassador, King, everybody, nobody), 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:pg503:28:12 # text = When the ambassador reached the city, where the King was waiting impatiently, everybody was very much annoyed with him for not bringing the Princess, and the King cried like a baby, and nobody could console him. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 ambassador ambassador NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 12 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 13 impatiently impatiently ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 19 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 very very ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 much much ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 annoyed annoyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 for for SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 bringing bring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 32 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 39 nsubj _ _ 38 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 console console NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | past | the ambassador | the city | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent city=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | past · progressive | the King | | | | | impatiently *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | everybody | | | | | with king; annoyed *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **bring** | gerund | everybody *not said here* | | the Princess | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination | | 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the King | | | | | like a baby | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **console** | could | nobody | king | | | | | 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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/13/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Pretty Goldilocks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/)