--- title: This happened to be the Duchess Grumbly’s castle, and when she heard… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: This happened to be the Duchess Grumbly’s castle, and when she heard that the King was coming she went out to meet him, and said that the cellar was the coolest place in the whole castle if he would condescend to come down into it. Who acts: This, castle, King, cellar. 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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 (This, castle, King, cellar), 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:pg540:23:14 # text = This happened to be the Duchess Grumbly’s castle, and when she heard that the King was coming she went out to meet him, and said that the cellar was the coolest place in the whole castle if he would condescend to come down into it. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nsubj _ _ 2 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Duchess Duchess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Grumbly Grumbly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’s 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 ccomp _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 22 out out ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 cellar cellar NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 coolest cool ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 amod _ _ 35 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 ccomp _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 40 if if SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 condescend condescend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ _ 46 down down ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 47 into into ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | This | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* | the Duchess Grumbly's castle | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hear** | past | castle | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **come** | past · progressive | the King | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go out** | past | castle | | | | | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **meet** | to-infinitive | castle *not said here* | tongue | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **is a** | past | the cellar | the coolest place | | the whole castle | | | tree rules | | 9 | **condescend** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | tongue | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **come down** | to-infinitive | tongue *not said here* | | | cellar | | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into it=Initial\_Location | 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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/23/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/23/15/) - ↑ back to [Graciosa and Percinet, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/23/)