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title: The King ordered that they should be seized and bound with ropes, an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King ordered that they should be seized and bound with ropes, and Frisk also. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 250

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The King ordered that they should be seized and bound with ropes, and Frisk also.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** order, seize, bind · **To what, where:** King

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg540:11:250
# text = The King ordered that they should be seized and bound with ropes, and Frisk also.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Frisk	Frisk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **seize** | should · passive |  | King |  |  |  | Frisk *obl* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **bind** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with ropes | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with rope=Co-Patient |

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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.

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**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.

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