--- title: The King, quite provoked, followed him hastily, but they had hardly… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King, quite provoked, followed him hastily, but they had hardly taken their places facing one another, and the whole Court had only just had time to rush out upon the balconies to watch what was going on, when suddenly the sun became as red as blood, and it was so dark that they could scarcely s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/6/54/) [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 Yellow Dwarf, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/6/) / 54 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 54 The King, quite provoked, followed him hastily, but they had hardly taken their places facing one another, and the whole Court had only just had time to rush out upon the balconies to watch what was going on, when suddenly the sun became as red as blood, and it was so dark that they could scarcely see at all. **Who acts:** King, spurs, places, whole Court, sun · **What happens:** provoke, follow, take, face, have, rush out · **To what, where:** King, Dwarf, places, one, balconies, all This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, spurs, places, whole Court), 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:pg503:6:54 # text = The King, quite provoked, followed him hastily, but they had hardly taken their places facing one another, and the whole Court had only just had time to rush out upon the balconies to watch what was going on, when suddenly the sun became as red as blood, and it was so dark that they could scarcely see at all. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 quite quite ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 provoked provoke VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 hastily hastily ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 parataxis _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 facing face VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 acl _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 obj _ _ 20 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 19 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 Court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 27 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 just just ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 30 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 rush rush VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ _ 33 out out ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 upon upon ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 balconies balcony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 39 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 41 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 ccomp _ _ 42 on on ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 44 when when SCONJ WRB _ 48 mark _ _ 45 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 48 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 49 as as ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 50 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 xcomp _ _ 51 as as ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 55 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ _ 56 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 58 cop _ _ 57 so so ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ _ 58 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 parataxis _ _ 59 that that SCONJ IN _ 63 mark _ _ 60 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 63 nsubj _ _ 61 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 63 aux _ _ 62 scarcely scarcely ADV RB _ 63 advmod _ _ 63 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 58 advcl _ _ 64 at at ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 65 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 63 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **provoke** | participle | | the King *not said here* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **follow** | past | the King | Dwarf | | | | hastily *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **take** | past · perfect | spurs *= spur* | spurs's places | | | | hardly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 4 | **face** | gerund | spurs's places *not said here* | one | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Destination | | 5 | **have** | past | the whole Court | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** | past | the whole Court *not said here* | | | | time | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **rush out** | to-infinitive | the whole Court *not said here* | | | the balconies | | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon balcony=Trajectory | | 8 | **watch** | to-infinitive | the whole Court *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **go on** | past · progressive | | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **become** | past | the sun | | | | | red, suddenly *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 11 | **is** | past | sun | | | | | dark *property* | tree rules | | 12 | **see** | could | spurs *= spur* | | | all | | scarcely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/6/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/6/55/) - ↑ back to [The Yellow Dwarf, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/6/)