--- title: In the evening, when everyone was to appear before the King and Prin… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In the evening, when everyone was to appear before the King and Princess, in order that he who had the golden apple might show it, one knight went in after the other, but none of them had a golden apple to show. Who acts: everyone, knight, golden apple, one knight. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/81/) [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 Princess on the Glass Hill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/) / 81 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 81 In the evening, when everyone was to appear before the King and Princess, in order that he who had the golden apple might show it, one knight went in after the other, but none of them had a golden apple to show. **Who acts:** everyone, knight, golden apple, one knight, none · **What happens:** be, have, show, go in · **To what, where:** order, armor, golden apple 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 (everyone, knight, golden apple, one knight), 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:pg503:48:81 # text = In the evening, when everyone was to appear before the King and Princess, in order that he who had the golden apple might show it, one knight went in after the other, but none of them had a golden apple to show. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 6 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 9 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 appear appear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 before before ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 parataxis _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 32 in in ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 after after ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 41 nsubj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nmod _ _ 41 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | everyone | | | order | before the King and Princess; evening | appear *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | past | knight | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **show** | might | the golden apple | armor | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 4 | **go in** | past | one knight | | | | after the other | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | past | none | a golden apple | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient | | 6 | **show** | to-infinitive | none *not said here* | a golden apple *not said here* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/82/) - ↑ back to [The Princess on the Glass Hill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/)