--- title: In the evening, when the King came home and heard the news of his so… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In the evening, when the King came home and heard the news of his son’s birth, he was full of delight, and insisted on going at once to his dear wife’s bedside to see how she was getting on. Who acts: King, Queen. 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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, Queen), 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:pg540:10:94 # text = In the evening, when the King came home and heard the news of his son’s birth, he was full of delight, and insisted on going at once to his dear wife’s bedside to see how she was getting on. 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 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 home home ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ’s 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 delight delight NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 insisted insist VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 28 on on SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 29 advmod _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ’s 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 bedside bedside NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 40 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 43 advmod _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 ccomp _ _ 44 on on ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the King | | | | evening | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hear** | past | the King *not said here* | the news of King's son's birth | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | past | King | | | | | of delight; full *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **insist** *speech: other* | participle | the King *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **go** | gerund | the King *not said here* | | | | | once *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **get on** | past · progressive | Queen | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: 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 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 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/93/) - next →: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/95/) - ↑ back to [Brother and Sister](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/)