--- title: When the King’s daughter came to the church the priest and people we… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the King’s daughter came to the church the priest and people were all standing on the hillside waiting for her, and the Prince ran up and wanted to hold the horse, but she jumped off, saying: Who acts: daughter, priest, hillside, Prince. 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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 (daughter, priest, hillside, Prince), 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:pg540:30:66 # text = When the King’s daughter came to the church the priest and people were all standing on the hillside waiting for her, and the Prince ran up and wanted to hold the horse, but she jumped off, saying: 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’s 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 all all ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 hillside hillside NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 39 off off ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 : : PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the King's daughter | | | the church | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | the priest and people | | | the hillside | | all *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hillside=Location | | 3 | **wait** | gerund | the hillside *not said here* | | | | | for daughter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **run up** | past | the Prince | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **want** | past | the Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **hold** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* | the horse | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | | 7 | **jump off** | past | daughter | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | daughter *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/30/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/30/67/) - ↑ back to [Kari Woodengown, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/30/)