--- title: The King and his huntsmen soon saw the beautiful creature and starte… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King and his huntsmen soon saw the beautiful creature and started in pursuit, but they could not come up with it, and whenever they thought they were sure to catch it, it bounded off to one side into the bushes and disappeared. Who acts: King, huntsmen, creature. 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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 (King, huntsmen, creature), 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:pg540:10:50 # text = The King and his huntsmen soon saw the beautiful creature and started in pursuit, but they could not come up with it, and whenever they thought they were sure to catch it, it bounded off to one side into the bushes and disappeared. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 huntsmen huntsman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 7 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 pursuit pursuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 26 whenever whenever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 28 advmod _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 ccomp _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 bounded bound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 38 off off ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 42 into into ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 bushes bush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 disappeared disappear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | the King and King's huntsmen | the beautiful creature | | | | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus | | 2 | **start** | past | the King and King's huntsmen *not said here* | | | pursuit | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **not** **come up** | could | huntsmen *= huntsman* | | | | | with pursuit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | huntsmen *= huntsman* | | | | | whenever *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | past | huntsmen *= huntsman* | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **catch** | to-infinitive | huntsmen *= huntsman* *not said here* | creature | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 7 | **bound off** | past | creature | | | the bushes | | to one side | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to side=Destination | | 8 | **disappear** | past | creature *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/51/) - ↑ back to [Brother and Sister](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/)