--- title: He carried a portrait, enclosed in a bow encrusted with diamonds, an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He carried a portrait, enclosed in a bow encrusted with diamonds, and he declared himself willing to maintain against them all that the Queen was the ugliest creature in the world, and that the Princess whose portrait he carried was the most beautiful. Who acts: King, Queen, Princess. 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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 (King, Queen, Princess), 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:pg540:24:4 # text = He carried a portrait, enclosed in a bow encrusted with diamonds, and he declared himself willing to maintain against them all that the Queen was the ugliest creature in the world, and that the Princess whose portrait he carried was the most beautiful. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 portrait portrait NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 enclosed enclose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 encrusted encrust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 diamonds diamond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 16 obj _ _ 18 willing willing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 maintain maintain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 against against ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 30 det:predet _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 ugliest ugly ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 amod _ _ 30 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 39 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 portrait portrait NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 46 advmod _ _ 46 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | past | King | a portrait | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme | | 2 | **enclose** | participle | | a portrait *not said here* | | a bow | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **encrust** | participle | | a bow *not said here* | | | | with diamonds | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with diamond=Theme | | 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | King | King | | | | willing *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute | | 5 | **maintain** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | | | | | against diamonds *= diamond* | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | past | the Queen | all ugliest creature | | the world | | | tree rules | | 7 | **carry** | past | King | the Princess the Princess portrait's portrait's portrait *not said here* | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme | | 8 | **is** | past | the Princess the Princess the Princess's portrait's portrait | | | | | beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **portray** | | the Princess the Princess portrait's portrait | | | | | | nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/24/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/24/5/) - ↑ back to [Graciosa and Percinet, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/24/)