--- title: The King comforted her, and said: “Leave your bedroom door open to-n… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King comforted her, and said: “Leave your bedroom door open to-night, my servants shall stand outside, and when your husband is fast asleep they shall enter, bind him fast, and carry him on to a ship, which shall sail away out into the wide ocean.” Who acts: King, servants, husband, ship. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, servants, husband, ship), 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:pg503:42:129 # text = The King comforted her, and said: “Leave your bedroom door open to-night, my servants shall stand outside, and when your husband is fast asleep they shall enter, bind him fast, and carry him on to a ship, which shall sail away out into the wide ocean.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 comforted comfort VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 bedroom bedroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 23 outside outside ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 26 when when SCONJ WRB _ 31 mark _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 31 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 advcl _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 enter enter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 bind bind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 on on ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 48 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 50 nsubj _ _ 49 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 sail sail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 acl:relcl _ _ 51 away away ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 52 out out ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 53 into into ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 55 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **comfort** | past | the King | lad | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive | | your bedroom door | | | | open *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme | | 4 | **stand** *in a quote* | shall | my servants | | | | | outside *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | your husband | | | | | asleep, fast *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **enter** *in a quote* | shall | servants *= servant* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **bind** *in a quote* | infinitive | servants *= servant* *not said here* | husband | | | | fast *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 8 | **carry on** *in a quote* | infinitive | servants *= servant* *not said here* | husband | | | | to a ship | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 9 | **sail away** *in a quote* | shall | a ship | | | the wide ocean | | away, out *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into ocean=Trajectory | 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 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/128/) - next →: [sentence 130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/130/) - ↑ back to [The Brave Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/)