--- title: After some time came the news that the King’s second daughter was go… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: After some time came the news that the King’s second daughter was going to be married. Who acts: second daughter. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/79/) [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 Wonderful Sheep, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/) / 79 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 79 After some time came the news that the King’s second daughter was going to be married. **Who acts:** second daughter · **What happens:** come, go, marry · **To what, where:** news This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second daughter), 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:pg503:31:79 # text = After some time came the news that the King’s second daughter was going to be married. 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’s 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 amod _ _ 12 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 acl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | | the news | | | time | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location news=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past · progressive | the King's second daughter | the news *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **marry** | to-infinitive · passive | the King's second daughter *not said here* | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | 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 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/80/) - ↑ back to [The Wonderful Sheep, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/)