--- title: As she turned into the courtyard of the castle the King’s son came o… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As she turned into the courtyard of the castle the King’s son came out to meet her, tied her steed to a pillar, and led her in. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch, 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/pg540/14/47/) [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 Wonderful Birch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/) / 47 # The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 47 As she turned into the courtyard of the castle the King’s son came out to meet her, tied her steed to a pillar, and led her in. **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** turn, come out, meet, tie, lead in · **To what, where:** courtyard, girl, steed This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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:pg540:14:47 # text = As she turned into the courtyard of the castle the King’s son came out to meet her, tied her steed to a pillar, and led her in. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 courtyard courtyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’s 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 out out ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 tied tie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 steed steed NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 pillar pillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 29 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | past | girl | | | the courtyard of the castle the King's son | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Trajectory | | 2 | **come out** | past | | | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | | girl | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | | 4 | **tie** | past | | girl's steed | | | | to a pillar | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent steed=Patient to pillar=Co-Patient | | 5 | **lead in** | past | | girl | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | 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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/48/) - ↑ back to [The Wonderful Birch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/)