--- title: The King, motionless with horror, looked on despairingly at this dre… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King, motionless with horror, looked on despairingly at this dreadful occurrence, which he was quite powerless to prevent, and to make matters worse his sight failed him, everything became dark, and he felt himself carried along through the air by a strong hand. 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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 (dreadful occurrence, sight, everything, King), 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:pg503:6:61 # text = The King, motionless with horror, looked on despairingly at this dreadful occurrence, which he was quite powerless to prevent, and to make matters worse his sight failed him, everything became dark, and he felt himself carried along through the air by a strong hand. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 motionless motionless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 horror horror NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 looked look VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 10 despairingly despairingly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 13 dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 occurrence occurrence NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 quite quite ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 powerless powerless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 prevent prevent VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 27 matters matter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 35 nsubj _ _ 35 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 36 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 41 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 40 obj _ _ 42 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 xcomp _ _ 43 along along ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 through through ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 47 by by ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | participle | | | | | | on this dreadful occurrence | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on occurrence=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | this dreadful occurrence | | | | | powerless *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | this dreadful occurrence *not said here* | | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | | matters | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset matter=Product | | 5 | **fail** | past | King's sight | King | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | | 6 | **become** | past | everything | | | | | dark *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **feel** | past | sight | King | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **carry** | participle | King *not said here* | | | the air | | by a strong hand; along *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **sight** | | King | | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/6/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/6/62/) - ↑ back to [The Yellow Dwarf, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/6/)