--- title: The King was delighted to receive so good an offer for his unlucky d… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King was delighted to receive so good an offer for his unlucky daughter, though, to tell the truth, he found it impossible to admire the Prince’s portrait which had been sent to him. Who acts: King, truth, 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 (King, truth, 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:pg540:34:23 # text = The King was delighted to receive so good an offer for his unlucky daughter, though, to tell the truth, he found it impossible to admire the Prince’s portrait which had been sent to him. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 receive receive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 offer offer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 unlucky unlucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 though though ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 impossible impossible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 admire admire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ’s 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 portrait portrait NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl:relcl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the King | | | | | delighted *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **receive** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | a good offer | | | | for King's unlucky daughter | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | the truth | | | | though *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | | 4 | **find** | past | King | truth | | | | impossible *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 5 | **admire** | to-infinitive | truth *not said here* | the Prince's portrait | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer portrait=Stimulus | | 6 | **send** | past · perfect · passive | | the Prince's portrait | prince | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination | | 7 | **portray** | | the Prince | | | | | | 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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/24/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Branch, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/)