--- title: So a great fire was lit in the courtyard of the palace, where she wa… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So a great fire was lit in the courtyard of the palace, where she was to be burnt, and the King watched the proceedings from an upper window, crying bitterly the while, for he still loved his wife dearly. Who acts: Queen, King, word. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brot --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/87/) [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 Twelve Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/) / 87 # The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 87 So a great fire was lit in the courtyard of the palace, where she was to be burnt, and the King watched the proceedings from an upper window, crying bitterly the while, for he still loved his wife dearly. **Who acts:** Queen, King, word · **What happens:** lit, be, watch, cry, love · **To what, where:** great fire, courtyard, proceedings, upper window, wife This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, King, word), 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:pg540:41:87 # text = So a great fire was lit in the courtyard of the palace, where she was to be burnt, and the King watched the proceedings from an upper window, crying bitterly the while, for he still loved his wife dearly. 1 So so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 lit lit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 courtyard courtyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 19 advmod _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 19 burnt burnt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 watched watch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 proceedings proceedings NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 24 obj _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 upper upper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 33 bitterly bitterly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 for for SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 still still ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 dearly dearly ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lit** | past · passive | | a great fire | | the courtyard of the palace | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | Queen | | | | | burnt *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **watch** | past | the King | the proceedings | | a upper window | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proceedings=Theme | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the King *not said here* | | | | while | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **love** | past | word | word's wife | | | still | dearly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | 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 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/88/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/)