--- title: Meanwhile the day was breaking, and the King and Queen and all the c… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Meanwhile the day was breaking, and the King and Queen and all the courtiers began to wake up and rub their eyes, and think it was time to finish the preparations for the wedding. Who acts: day, King, case. 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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 (day, King, case), 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:pg540:4:23 # text = Meanwhile the day was breaking, and the King and Queen and all the courtiers began to wake up and rub their eyes, and think it was time to finish the preparations for the wedding. 1 Meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 breaking break VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 15 det:predet _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 courtiers courtier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 16 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 wake wake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 rub rub VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 ccomp _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 preparations preparation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | past · progressive | the day | | | | | meanwhile *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **begin** | past | the King and Queen and all courtiers | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **wake up** | to-infinitive | the King and Queen and all courtiers *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **rub** | infinitive | the King and Queen and all courtiers *not said here* | courtiers's eyes | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | the King and Queen and all courtiers *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | past | case | time | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **finish** | to-infinitive | the King and Queen and all courtiers *not said here* | the preparations | | | | for the wedding | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality preparation=Eventuality | 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/pg540/4/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/24/) - ↑ back to [The Princess Mayblossom, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/)