--- title: The King and the Prince were delighted to see that the King of the P… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King and the Prince were delighted to see that the King of the Peacocks was as handsome as possible. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/83/) [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/) / 83 # The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 83 The King and the Prince were delighted to see that the King of the Peacocks was as handsome as possible. **Who acts:** King · **What happens:** be, see · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg540:1074`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:11:83 # text = The King and the Prince were delighted to see that the King of the Peacocks was as handsome as possible. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 King king NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Peacocks peacock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 as as ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the King and the Prince | | | | | delighted *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | the King and the Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | past | the King of the Peacocks | | | | | handsome *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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/84/) - ↑ back to [Princess Rosette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/)