--- title: At last they bethought themselves of telling the King that the youth… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At last they bethought themselves of telling the King that the youth had said that, if he chose, he was quite able to rescue the Princess who had been carried off into the mountain a long time ago by the Troll. Who acts: people, King, Troll. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Thr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/38/25/) [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/) / [The Three Dwarfs, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/38/) / 25 # The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 25 At last they bethought themselves of telling the King that the youth had said that, if he chose, he was quite able to rescue the Princess who had been carried off into the mountain a long time ago by the Troll. **Who acts:** people, King, Troll · **What happens:** bethink, tell, say, choose, be, rescue · **To what, where:** people, last, King, youth, Princess, mountain · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, King, Troll), 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:pg540:38:25 # text = At last they bethought themselves of telling the King that the youth had said that, if he chose, he was quite able to rescue the Princess who had been carried off into the mountain a long time ago by the Troll. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 bethought bethink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ _ 6 of of SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 ccomp _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 quite quite ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 rescue rescue VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 off off ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 into into ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 ago ago ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 41 by by ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 Troll troll NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bethink** | past | people | people | | last | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | people *not said here* | | the King | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | | the youth | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | | 4 | **choose** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | King | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | past | King | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **rescue** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | the Princess | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | | 7 | **carry off** | past · perfect · passive | the Troll | the Princess | | the mountain | | ago *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/38/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/38/26/) - ↑ back to [The Three Dwarfs, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/38/)