--- title: Numbers of knights came from far and wide to accept the challenge, a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Numbers of knights came from far and wide to accept the challenge, and the hideous Queen sat in great state in a balcony hung with cloth of gold to watch the contests, and Graciosa had to stand up behind her, where her loveliness was so conspicuous that the combatants could not keep their eyes off h --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/24/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [Graciosa and Percinet, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/24/) / 1 # The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 1 Numbers of knights came from far and wide to accept the challenge, and the hideous Queen sat in great state in a balcony hung with cloth of gold to watch the contests, and Graciosa had to stand up behind her, where her loveliness was so conspicuous that the combatants could not keep their eyes off her. **Who acts:** Numbers, hideous Queen, Graciosa, loveliness, combatants · **What happens:** come, accept, sit, hang, watch, have · **To what, where:** challenge, great state, balcony, contests, eyes This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Numbers, hideous Queen, Graciosa, loveliness), 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:pg540:24:1 # text = Numbers of knights came from far and wide to accept the challenge, and the hideous Queen sat in great state in a balcony hung with cloth of gold to watch the contests, and Graciosa had to stand up behind her, where her loveliness was so conspicuous that the combatants could not keep their eyes off her. 1 Numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 accept accept VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 challenge challenge NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 hideous hideous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 balcony balcony NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 hung hang VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 contests contest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 Graciosa Graciosa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 up up ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 behind behind ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 44 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 49 advmod _ _ 45 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 loveliness loveliness NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 47 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 48 so so ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 conspicuous conspicuous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 parataxis _ _ 50 that that SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 combatants combatant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 nsubj _ _ 53 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 54 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 55 advmod _ _ 55 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 advcl _ _ 56 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 57 nmod:poss _ _ 57 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 obj _ _ 58 off off ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Numbers of knights | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from far=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **accept** | to-infinitive | Numbers of knights *not said here* | the challenge | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme | | 3 | **sit** | past | the hideous Queen | | | great state | | in a balcony | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in state=Location | | 4 | **hang** | participle | | a balcony *not said here* | | | | with cloth of gold | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **watch** | to-infinitive | | the contests | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contest=Theme | | 6 | **have** | past | Graciosa | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **stand up** | to-infinitive | Graciosa *not said here* | | | | | behind Graciosa | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind she=Location | | 8 | **is** | past | Graciosa's loveliness | | | | | conspicuous *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **not** **keep** | could | the combatants | combatants's eyes | | | | off Graciosa | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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: [Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/23/102/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/24/2/) - ↑ back to [Graciosa and Percinet, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/24/)