--- title: Then the other servants of the King, who at no time looked favorably… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the other servants of the King, who at no time looked favorably on Trusty John, cried out: “What a sin to kill the beautiful beast that was to bear the King to his palace!” Who acts: other servants, beautiful beast. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John, with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/41/84/) [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/) / 84 # The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 84 Then the other servants of the King, who at no time looked favorably on Trusty John, cried out: “What a sin to kill the beautiful beast that was to bear the King to his palace!” **Who acts:** other servants, beautiful beast · **What happens:** look, cry out, kill, be · **To what, where:** sin, beautiful beast · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (other servants, beautiful beast), 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:pg503:41:84 # text = Then the other servants of the King, who at no time looked favorably on Trusty John, cried out: “What a sin to kill the beautiful beast that was to bear the King to his palace!” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 12 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 favorably favorably ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 Trusty Trusty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 21 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 25 det _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 sin sin NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | the other servants of the King | | | | then | on Trusty John; favorably *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on john=Theme | | 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the other servants of the King *not said here* | what sin | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **kill** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the other servants of the King *not said here* | the beautiful beast | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the beautiful beast | the beautiful beast *not said here* | | | | to king's palace; bear *property* | 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 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/41/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/41/85/) - ↑ back to [Trusty John](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/41/)