--- title: Now it happened that the garden boy had just been sent away, and tho… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now it happened that the garden boy had just been sent away, and though the Star Gazer did not look very sturdy, the gardener agreed to take him, as he thought that his pretty face and golden curls would please the princesses. Who acts: it, Star Gazer, gardener, pretty face. 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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 (it, Star Gazer, gardener, pretty face), 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:pg540:2:32 # text = Now it happened that the garden boy had just been sent away, and though the Star Gazer did not look very sturdy, the gardener agreed to take him, as he thought that his pretty face and golden curls would please the princesses. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 9 just just ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 12 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 15 though though SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 Star Star PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Gazer Gazer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 sturdy sturdy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 agreed agree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 curls curl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ _ 42 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 please please VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 ccomp _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 princesses princess NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | it | | | | now | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **send away** | past · perfect · passive | | the garden boy | | | | away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **not** **look** | past · do-support | the Star Gazer | | | | | sturdy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the gardener | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the gardener *not said here* | | gardener | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | gardener | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **please** | would | gardener's pretty face and golden curls | the princesses | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer | 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/33/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Dancing Princesses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/)