--- title: But before that happened, the people who saw him sitting lonely on t… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But before that happened, the people who saw him sitting lonely on the shore had heard his story, and when their children were restless they used to tell them of the good son who from love to his parents had given up for their sakes the splendour and wonders of the palace in the sea, and the most be --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/3/126/) [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 Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / [The Pink Fairy Book, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/3/) / 126 # The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 126 But before that happened, the people who saw him sitting lonely on the shore had heard his story, and when their children were restless they used to tell them of the good son who from love to his parents had given up for their sakes the splendour and wonders of the palace in the sea, and the most beautiful woman in the world besides. **Who acts:** that, people, death, shore, children, good son · **What happens:** happen, see, sit, hear, be, use · **To what, where:** death, story, people, love, palace · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, people, death, shore), 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:pg5615:3:126 # text = But before that happened, the people who saw him sitting lonely on the shore had heard his story, and when their children were restless they used to tell them of the good son who from love to his parents had given up for their sakes the splendour and wonders of the palace in the sea, and the most beautiful woman in the world besides. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 before before SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 4 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ _ 12 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 on on SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 restless restless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 iobj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 36 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 42 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 acl:relcl _ _ 44 up up ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ _ 45 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 sakes sake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 splendour splendour NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod:unmarked _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 wonders wonder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 conj _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod _ _ 55 in in ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 61 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 62 advmod _ _ 62 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 63 amod _ _ 63 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 nsubj _ _ 64 in in ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 65 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 66 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 nmod _ _ 67 besides beside VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 68 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | that | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | the people | death | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sit** | gerund | death *not said here* | | | | | lonely *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hear** | past · perfect | the shore | death's story | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | past | people's children | | | | | restless *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **use** | past | people | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | people | | | of the good son | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 8 | **give up** | past · perfect | the good son | | | love to death's parents | | for people's sakes the splendour and wonders of the palace in the sea | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **beside** | present | the beautiful woman in the world | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **wonder** | | | the palace in the sea | | | | | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/3/125/) - next →: [The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/4/1/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/3/)