--- title: I greatly fear that the King, his master, when he receives no tiding… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: I greatly fear that the King, his master, when he receives no tidings from him, will come to seek him among us, and will accuse us of having made mince-meat of him. Who acts: I, King. 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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 (I, King), 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:pg540:4:43 # text = I greatly fear that the King, his master, when he receives no tidings from him, will come to seek him among us, and will accuse us of having made mince-meat of him. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 greatly greatly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 fear fear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 receives receive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 15 det _ _ 15 tidings tiding NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 among among ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 accuse accuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 30 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 of of SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 32 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 33 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 amod _ _ 34 mince mince NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fear** | present | I | | | | | greatly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **receive** | present | King | no tidings | | | | from Fanfaronade | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tiding=Theme from he=Source | | 3 | **come** | future | the King | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | Fanfaronade | | | | among us | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme among we=Location | | 5 | **accuse** | future | the King *not said here* | us | | | | | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent we=Theme | | 6 | **have** | gerund | the King *not said here* | made mince meat of Fanfaronade | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | | 7 | **make** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | 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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/44/) - ↑ back to [The Princess Mayblossom, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/)