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title: So the King’s guards went to fetch Charming, who had thought no more… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the King’s guards went to fetch Charming, who had thought no more of his rash speech, and carried him off to prison with great cruelty. Who acts: guards, Charming, king. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 23

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So the King’s guards went to fetch Charming, who had thought no more of his rash speech, and carried him off to prison with great cruelty.

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**Who acts:** guards, Charming, king · **What happens:** go, fetch, think, carry off, speak · **To what, where:** Charming, king, prison · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (guards, Charming, king), 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:pg503:28:23
# text = So the King’s guards went to fetch Charming, who had thought no more of his rash speech, and carried him off to prison with great cruelty.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
14	no	no	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	rash	rash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the King's guards |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | the King's guards *not said here* | Charming |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charming=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect | Charming |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **carry off** | past | the King's guards *not said here* | king |  | prison |  | with great cruelty | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to prison=Destination |
| 5 | **speak** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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