--- title: When he heard the news he had a great tower built as quickly as poss… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When he heard the news he had a great tower built as quickly as possible, and there the Princess was shut up, and the King and Queen and her two brothers went to see her every day that she might not be dull. Who acts: hermit, King, Queen. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess R --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/34/) [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 Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [Princess Rosette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/) / 34 # The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 34 When he heard the news he had a great tower built as quickly as possible, and there the Princess was shut up, and the King and Queen and her two brothers went to see her every day that she might not be dull. **Who acts:** hermit, King, Queen · **What happens:** hear, have, build, shut up, go, see · **To what, where:** news, great tower, Princess, Queen 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 (hermit, 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:pg540:11:34 # text = When he heard the news he had a great tower built as quickly as possible, and there the Princess was shut up, and the King and Queen and her two brothers went to see her every day that she might not be dull. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 as as ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 22 expl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 shut shut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 34 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 39 det _ _ 39 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 that that SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 42 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 43 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 44 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 45 cop _ _ 45 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | hermit | the news | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** | past | hermit | a great tower | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Patient | | 3 | **build** | participle | | a great tower *not said here* | | | | quickly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **shut up** | past · passive | | the Princess | | there | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **go** | past | the King and Queen and Queen's two brothers | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | the King and Queen and Queen's two brothers *not said here* | Queen | | | day | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 7 | **not** **is** | might | Queen | | | | | dull *property* | tree rules | 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 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/35/) - ↑ back to [Princess Rosette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/)