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title: As he had not had time to prepare his speech beforehand, the King or… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As he had not had time to prepare his speech beforehand, the King ordered that silence should be kept for three hours, and at the end of that time he spoke as follows: Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 39

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As he had not had time to prepare his speech beforehand, the King ordered that silence should be kept for three hours, and at the end of that time he spoke as follows:

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** not have, prepare, order, keep, speak, follow · **To what, where:** speech, silence, time, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg540:4:39
# text = As he had not had time to prepare his speech beforehand, the King ordered that silence should be kept for three hours, and at the end of that time he spoke as follows:
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	beforehand	beforehand	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	ccomp	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	obl	_	_
35	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | past · perfect | King |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **prepare** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | King's speech |  |  |  | beforehand *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Patient |
| 3 | **order** | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **keep** | should · passive |  | silence |  |  | hour |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | King | that time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **follow** | present | the King *not said here* |  |  |  | at the end of that time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at end=Location |
| 7 | **speak** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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.

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