--- title: In the meantime the King won a great victory, and having completely… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In the meantime the King won a great victory, and having completely defeated and driven off the enemy, he hurried home to his daughters, to whom his thoughts had constantly turned. Who acts: King, thoughts. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig, with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/48/) [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/) / [The Enchanted Pig](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/) / 48 # The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 48 In the meantime the King won a great victory, and having completely defeated and driven off the enemy, he hurried home to his daughters, to whom his thoughts had constantly turned. **Who acts:** King, thoughts · **What happens:** win, defeat, drive off, hurry, turn, think · **To what, where:** great victory, meantime, enemy This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, thoughts), 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:pg540:12:48 # text = In the meantime the King won a great victory, and having completely defeated and driven off the enemy, he hurried home to his daughters, to whom his thoughts had constantly turned. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 meantime meantime NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 victory victory NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 aux _ _ 13 completely completely ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 defeated defeat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 parataxis _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 driven drive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 17 off off ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 hurried hurry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 23 home home ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 34 obl _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 constantly constantly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win** | past | the King | a great victory | | the meantime | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Eventuality | | 2 | **defeat** | gerund · perfect | | | | | | completely *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **drive off** | participle | | the enemy | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme enemy=Trajectory | | 4 | **hurry** | past | King | | | | | to King's daughters *result*; home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to daughter=Result | | 5 | **turn** | past · perfect | King's thoughts | | | | | constantly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to whom=Result | | 6 | **think** | | King | | | | | | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/49/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Pig](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/)