--- title: Towards evening the good man’s daughter thought it was time to go ho… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Towards evening the good man’s daughter thought it was time to go home; but as she went, her ring caught on the latch of the door, for the King’s son had had it smeared with tar. Who acts: daughter, arm, son. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, arm, son), 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:pg540:14:53 # text = Towards evening the good man’s daughter thought it was time to go home; but as she went, her ring caught on the latch of the door, for the King’s son had had it smeared with tar. 1 Towards toward NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 compound _ _ 2 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’s 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl _ _ 14 home home ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 latch latch NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 for for SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’s 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 37 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 smeared smear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 xcomp _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the good man's daughter | | | | evening | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | arm | time | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | the good man's daughter *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **go** | past | daughter | daughter's ring | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **catch** | participle | | daughter's ring *not said here* | | the latch of the door | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** | past | the King's son | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **have** | past | the King's son *not said here* | arm | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **smear** | participle | arm *not said here* | | | | | with tar | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tar=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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/54/) - ↑ back to [The Wonderful Birch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/)