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title: So, when the King, thinking to improve his beauty, took the flask an… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So, when the King, thinking to improve his beauty, took the flask and sprinkled the water upon his face, _he_ fell asleep, and nobody could wake him. Who acts: King, _, nobody. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 192

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So, when the King, thinking to improve his beauty, took the flask and sprinkled the water upon his face, \_he\_ fell asleep, and nobody could wake him.

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**Who acts:** King, \_, nobody · **What happens:** think, improve, take, sprinkle, fall, wake · **To what, where:** beauty, flask, water, face

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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 (King, \_, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg503:28:192
# text = So, when the King, thinking to improve his beauty, took the flask and sprinkled the water upon his face, _he_ fell asleep, and nobody could wake him.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	improve	improve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	flask	flask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	_
27	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
28	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	33	nsubj	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **improve** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | king's beauty |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent beauty=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | past |  | the flask |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flask=Theme |
| 4 | **sprinkle** | past |  | the water |  | water's face |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme upon face=Destination |
| 5 | **fall** | past | \_ |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **wake** | could | nobody | water |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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.

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**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.

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