--- title: On hearing these words the damsel set forth once more, and walked ti… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: On hearing these words the damsel set forth once more, and walked till she reached the Golden Castle, where lived the Sun. And she knocked boldly at the door, saying, ‘All hail, O Sun! Who acts: mistress. 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And she knocked boldly at the door, saying, ‘All hail, O Sun! **Who acts:** mistress · **What happens:** hear, set, walk, reach, live, knock · **To what, where:** words, Golden Castle, hail · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress), 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:pg5615:25:23 # text = On hearing these words the damsel set forth once more, and walked till she reached the Golden Castle, where lived the Sun. And she knocked boldly at the door, saying, ‘All hail, O Sun! 1 On on SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 hearing hear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 3 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 damsel damsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 forth forth ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 10 advmod _ _ 10 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 14 till till SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 Castle Castle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advmod _ _ 22 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Sun. Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 And and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 28 boldly boldly ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 37 det _ _ 37 hail hail NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 O o INTJ UH _ 40 discourse _ _ 40 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | gerund | | this words | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **set** | past | | | | | | forth *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **walk** | past | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **reach** | past | mistress | the Golden Castle | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | | 5 | **live** | past | | | | | sunday | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **knock** | past | mistress | | | | | at the door; boldly *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | mistress *not said here* | all hail Sun | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hail=Topic | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/25/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/25/24/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/25/)