--- title: At length this royal assembly began to sport and play at all kinds o… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At length this royal assembly began to sport and play at all kinds of diversions, and the Queen very cunningly challenged the three Princes to play at cards with her, making bargain with them as she had been instructed. Who acts: royal assembly, Queen. 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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 (royal assembly, Queen), 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:pg540:8:37 # text = At length this royal assembly began to sport and play at all kinds of diversions, and the Queen very cunningly challenged the three Princes to play at cards with her, making bargain with them as she had been instructed. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 4 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 assembly assembly NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 sport sport NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 diversions diversion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 cunningly cunningly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 challenged challenge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 Princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 34 bargain bargain NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 37 as as SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 instructed instruct VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | this royal assembly | | | length | | to sport | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **play** | infinitive | this royal assembly *not said here* | | | all kinds of diversions | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **challenge** | past | the Queen | the three Princes | | | | cunningly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **play** | to-infinitive | the Queen *not said here* | | | cards | | with Queen | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-Agent | | 5 | **make** | gerund | the Queen *not said here* | bargain | | | | with cards *= card* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bargain=Product | | 6 | **instruct** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive | | Queen | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/38/) - ↑ back to [The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/)