--- title: Twenty delightful kings did everything they could think of to make t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Twenty delightful kings did everything they could think of to make themselves agreeable, and after having spent ever so much money in giving a single entertainment thought themselves very lucky if the Princess said “That’s pretty.” Who acts: Twenty delightful kings, eyes, Princess. 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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 (Twenty delightful kings, eyes, Princess), 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:pg503:5:11 # text = Twenty delightful kings did everything they could think of to make themselves agreeable, and after having spent ever so much money in giving a single entertainment thought themselves very lucky if the Princess said “That’s pretty.” 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 delightful delightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 4 obj _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 of of SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 12 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 11 obj _ _ 13 agreeable agreeable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 after after SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 aux _ _ 18 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 19 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 18 advmod _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 in in SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 entertainment entertainment NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 28 obj _ _ 30 very very ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 ccomp _ _ 32 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 36 “ " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 ccomp _ _ 39 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Twenty delightful kings | everything | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | could | eyes *= eye* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | | eyes *= eye* | | | | agreeable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product | | 4 | **spend** | gerund · perfect | Twenty delightful kings *not said here* | much money | | | ever | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | | 5 | **give** | gerund | Twenty delightful kings *not said here* | a single entertainment | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entertainment=Theme | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Twenty delightful kings *not said here* | eyes *= eye* | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Theme | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the Princess | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/5/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/5/12/) - ↑ back to [The Yellow Dwarf, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/5/)