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title: But just as the King was thinking that it would be well to proclaim… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But just as the King was thinking that it would be well to proclaim that the riding should take place next day for the last time, so that they might have one more chance, he suddenly bethought himself that it would be well to wait a little longer to see if the knight in copper armor would come on th
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 76

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But just as the King was thinking that it would be well to proclaim that the riding should take place next day for the last time, so that they might have one more chance, he suddenly bethought himself that it would be well to wait a little longer to see if the knight in copper armor would come on this day too.

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**Who acts:** King, more, riding, princes, knight · **What happens:** think, be, proclaim, take, have, bethink · **To what, where:** place, one more chance, King · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, more, riding, princes), 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:pg503:48:76
# text = But just as the King was thinking that it would be well to proclaim that the riding should take place next day for the last time, so that they might have one more chance, he suddenly bethought himself that it would be well to wait a little longer to see if the knight in copper armor would come on this day too.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	proclaim	proclaim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	32	mark	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
34	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
35	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	bethought	bethink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
40	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obj	_	_
41	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
43	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	cop	_	_
45	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	advmod	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	advcl	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	50	advmod	_	_
50	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	47	advmod	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	advcl	_	_
53	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	armor	armor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
59	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
60	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	ccomp	_	_
61	on	on	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	63	det	_	_
63	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
64	too	too	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **proclaim** | would | more |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | should | the riding | place |  |  | day; time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | might | princes *= prince* | one more chance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient |
| 6 | **bethink** | past | King | King |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | would | more |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **wait** | to-infinitive | more *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **see** | to-infinitive | more *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 10 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | the knight in copper armor |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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