--- title: Now no one knew any more than before about the good man’s daughter,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now no one knew any more than before about the good man’s daughter, no one knew whence she came; but the Prince had had the threshold smeared with tar, and as she fled her gold slippers stuck to it. Who acts: one, daughter, Prince, threshold. 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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 (one, daughter, Prince, threshold), 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:pg540:14:95 # text = Now no one knew any more than before about the good man’s daughter, no one knew whence she came; but the Prince had had the threshold smeared with tar, and as she fled her gold slippers stuck to it. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 3 det _ _ 3 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 any any ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 7 than than ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 before before ADV RB _ 4 obl _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’s 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 17 det _ _ 17 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 whence whence ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 threshold threshold NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 smeared smear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 as as SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 slippers slipper VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 ccomp _ _ 41 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | past | no one | | | | now | about the good man's daughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about daughter=Stimulus | | 2 | **know** | past | no one | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **come** | past | daughter | | | | | whence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past · perfect | the Prince | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **smear** | past | the threshold | | | | | with tar | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tar=Theme | | 6 | **flee** | past | daughter | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **slipper** | present | daughter's gold | | | | | stuck *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 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/96/) - ↑ back to [The Wonderful Birch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/)