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title: Everything in the King’s palace was hung with black, and everyone wa… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything in the King’s palace was hung with black, and everyone was sorrowful and distressed; but Ritter Red said that he did not think that they had much reason to be afraid—he had delivered the King’s daughter from two Trolls, so he could easily deliver her from the third as well. Who acts: ever
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 58

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Everything in the King’s palace was hung with black, and everyone was sorrowful and distressed; but Ritter Red said that he did not think that they had much reason to be afraid—he had delivered the King’s daughter from two Trolls, so he could easily deliver her from the third as well.

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**Who acts:** everyone, Ritter, occasions · **What happens:** hang, be, distress, say, not think, have · **To what, where:** Everything, much reason, daughter, two Trolls · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (everyone, Ritter, occasions), 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:pg540:45:58
# text = Everything in the King’s palace was hung with black, and everyone was sorrowful and distressed; but Ritter Red said that he did not think that they had much reason to be afraid—he had delivered the King’s daughter from two Trolls, so he could easily deliver her from the third as well.
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	distressed	distress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
31	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
35	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’s	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	_
43	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
46	Trolls	troll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	so	so	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
50	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
51	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
53	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	from	from	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	52	conj	_	_
57	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	56	advmod	_	_
58	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	57	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past · passive |  | Everything |  |  |  | with black | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with black=Instrument |
| 2 | **is** | past | everyone |  |  |  |  | sorrowful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **distress** | participle | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ritter |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | Ritter |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | past | occasions *= occasion* | much reason |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | occasions *= occasion* *not said here* | much reason *not said here* |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **deliver** | past · perfect | Ritter | the King's daughter |  | two Trolls |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme from troll=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **deliver** | could | Ritter | daughter |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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