--- title: The King had scarce time, with tears in his eyes, to assure her she… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King had scarce time, with tears in his eyes, to assure her she should be obeyed in everything, when she, turning herself in her bed, with a smile gave up the ghost. Who acts: King, woman, smile. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/7/) [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 Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/) / 7 # The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 7 The King had scarce time, with tears in his eyes, to assure her she should be obeyed in everything, when she, turning herself in her bed, with a smile gave up the ghost. **Who acts:** King, woman, smile · **What happens:** have, assure, obey, turn, give up · **To what, where:** woman, everything, ghost This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, woman, smile), 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:pg540:8:7 # text = The King had scarce time, with tears in his eyes, to assure her she should be obeyed in everything, when she, turning herself in her bed, with a smile gave up the ghost. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 scarce scarce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 assure assure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 obeyed obey VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 parataxis _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 27 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 26 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 with with SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 smile smile NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 ghost ghost NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the King | | | | time | with tears in Neglect's eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **assure** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | | woman | | | | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 3 | **obey** | should · passive | | woman | | everything | | | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **turn** | gerund | woman | woman | | | | in woman's bed | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in bed=Topic | | 5 | **give up** | past | a smile | the ghost | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ghost=Source | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/8/) - ↑ back to [The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/)