--- title: But the King seized her hand and spake: “I am no merchant, but a kin… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But the King seized her hand and spake: “I am no merchant, but a king of as high birth as yourself; and it was my great love for you that made me carry you off by stratagem. Who acts: King, Princess, merchant, great love. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John, with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/41/59/) [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/) / [Trusty John](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/41/) / 59 # The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 59 But the King seized her hand and spake: “I am no merchant, but a king of as high birth as yourself; and it was my great love for you that made me carry you off by stratagem. **Who acts:** King, Princess, merchant, great love · **What happens:** seize, be, make, carry off · **To what, where:** hand, merchant, great love, Princess, you This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Princess, merchant, great love), 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:pg503:41:59 # text = But the King seized her hand and spake: “I am no merchant, but a king of as high birth as yourself; and it was my great love for you that made me carry you off by stratagem. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 seized seize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 spake speak NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nmod _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 36 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 off off ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 40 by by ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 stratagem stratagem NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seize** | past | the King | Princess's hand and spake | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Princess | no merchant | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | merchant | my great love | | | | for you | tree rules | | 4 | **make** *in a quote* | past | my great love | Princess | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **carry off** *in a quote* | infinitive | Princess *not said here* | you | | | | by stratagem | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | 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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/41/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/41/60/) - ↑ back to [Trusty John](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/41/)