--- title: On Sunday some strangers were coming to the King’s palace, so Kari b… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: On Sunday some strangers were coming to the King’s palace, so Kari begged to have leave to carry up the water for the Prince’s bath, but the others laughed at her and said, ‘What do you want there? Who acts: strangers, Kari, leave, others. 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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 (strangers, Kari, leave, others), 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:pg540:30:18 # text = On Sunday some strangers were coming to the King’s palace, so Kari begged to have leave to carry up the water for the Prince’s bath, but the others laughed at her and said, ‘What do you want there? 1 On on ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 4 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’s 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 Kari Kari PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 leave leave NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’s 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 bath bath NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 43 obj _ _ 41 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 ccomp _ _ 44 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past · progressive | some strangers | | | the King's palace | sunday | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Kari | | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Kari *not said here* | leave | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **carry up** | to-infinitive | leave *not said here* | the water | | | | for the Prince's bath | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 5 | **laugh** | past | the others | | | | | at Kari | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the others *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **want** | present · do-support | you | | | there | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/30/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/30/19/) - ↑ back to [Kari Woodengown, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/30/)