--- title: The Wind gladly promised to do what he could, and as he travelled mu… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Wind gladly promised to do what he could, and as he travelled much faster than the maiden he soon arrived at the palace, where he found five tailors working night and day at the wedding clothes of the princess. Who acts: Wind, despair, five tailors. 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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 (Wind, despair, five tailors), 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:pg5615:25:57 # text = The Wind gladly promised to do what he could, and as he travelled much faster than the maiden he soon arrived at the palace, where he found five tailors working night and day at the wedding clothes of the princess. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Wind Wind PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 gladly gladly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 much much ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 14 advmod _ _ 17 than than ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 22 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 29 advmod _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 30 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 tailors tailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 33 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 32 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the Wind | | | | | gladly *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Wind *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 3 | **travel** | past | despair | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **arrive** | past | despair | | | the palace | | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **find** | past | despair | five tailors | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tailor=Topic | | 6 | **work** | gerund | five tailors *not said here* | | | | night | at the wedding clothes of the princess | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at clothes=Theme | 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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/25/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/25/58/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/25/)