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title: The King became ill, and there was no doctor who could cure him till… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King became ill, and there was no doctor who could cure him till Farmer Weatherbeard arrived, and he demanded the ring which was on the Princess’s finger as a reward. Who acts: King, doctor, Farmer, ring. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard, with its dependency
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# The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 134

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The King became ill, and there was no doctor who could cure him till Farmer Weatherbeard arrived, and he demanded the ring which was on the Princess’s finger as a reward.

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**Who acts:** King, doctor, Farmer, ring · **What happens:** become, be, cure, arrive, demand · **To what, where:** doctor, ring, finger

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, doctor, Farmer, ring), 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:pg540:43:134
# text = The King became ill, and there was no doctor who could cure him till Farmer Weatherbeard arrived, and he demanded the ring which was on the Princess’s finger as a reward.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	Weatherbeard	Weatherbeard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	acl:relcl	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the King |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **be** | past | no doctor |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cure** | could | no doctor | doctor |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source |
| 4 | **arrive** | past | Farmer |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | Farmer | the ring |  |  |  | as a reward | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ring=Precondition |
| 6 | **is** | past | the ring |  |  | the Princess's finger |  |  | tree rules |

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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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