--- title: Imagine his terror when on entering he sees the King as red as a tur… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Imagine his terror when on entering he sees the King as red as a turkey cock, and all his ministers attending him standing sword in hand. Who acts: you, Drakestail, ministers. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/92/) [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/) / [Kari Woodengown, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/) / 92 # The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 92 Imagine his terror when on entering he sees the King as red as a turkey cock, and all his ministers attending him standing sword in hand. **Who acts:** you, Drakestail, ministers · **What happens:** imagine, enter, see, attend, stand · **To what, where:** terror, King, Drakestail, sword, hand This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Drakestail, ministers), 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:pg540:31:92 # text = Imagine his terror when on entering he sees the King as red as a turkey cock, and all his ministers attending him standing sword in hand. 1 Imagine imagine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 5 on on SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 entering enter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obl _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 turkey turkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 21 det:predet _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 ministers minister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 attending attend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 parataxis _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 25 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* | Drakestail's terror | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot terror=Theme | | 2 | **enter** | gerund | Drakestail *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **see** | present | Drakestail | the King | | | | as red; as a turkey cock | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus as red=Attribute | | 4 | **attend** | gerund | Drakestail's ministers | | Drakestail | | | | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Goal | | 5 | **stand** | gerund | Drakestail's ministers *not said here* | sword | | hand | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in hand=Destination | 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 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/93/) - ↑ back to [Kari Woodengown, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/)