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title: At last his physicians, fearing that he would fall ill, ordered that… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last his physicians, fearing that he would fall ill, ordered that he should go out and amuse himself; so a hunting party was arranged, but as it was very hot weather the King soon got tired, and said he would dismount and rest at a castle which they were passing. Who acts: last physicians, tongue
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 13

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At last his physicians, fearing that he would fall ill, ordered that he should go out and amuse himself; so a hunting party was arranged, but as it was very hot weather the King soon got tired, and said he would dismount and rest at a castle which they were passing.

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**Who acts:** last physicians, tongue, party, King, castle · **What happens:** fear, fall, order, go out, amuse, arrange · **To what, where:** last physicians, tongue, hunting party, castle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last physicians, tongue, party, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg540:23:13
# text = At last his physicians, fearing that he would fall ill, ordered that he should go out and amuse himself; so a hunting party was arranged, but as it was very hot weather the King soon got tired, and said he would dismount and rest at a castle which they were passing.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	physicians	physician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	amuse	amuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	very	very	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
40	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
41	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	dismount	dismount	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	ccomp	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	conj	_	_
50	at	at	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj	_	_
54	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
55	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	52	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | gerund | tongue's last physicians *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **fall** | would | tongue |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **order** | past |  |  |  | tongue's last physicians |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go out** | should | tongue |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **amuse** | present | tongue *not said here* | tongue |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 6 | **arrange** | past · passive |  | a hunting party |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 7 | **is** | past | party |  |  |  |  | as hot weather | tree rules |
| 8 | **get** | past | the King |  |  |  |  | soon, tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 10 | **dismount** | would | tongue |  |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **rest** | infinitive | tongue *not said here* |  |  | a castle |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at castle=Location |
| 12 | **pass** | past · progressive | a castle |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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.

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