--- title: When the king awoke and found that the tree to which he had tied his… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the king awoke and found that the tree to which he had tied his horse had its lowest branch broken, and that nothing living was in sight, he was much dismayed, and sought high and low for his lost treasure, but all in vain. Who acts: king, tree, lowest branch, nothing living. 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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 (king, tree, lowest branch, nothing living), 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:pg5615:30:18 # text = When the king awoke and found that the tree to which he had tied his horse had its lowest branch broken, and that nothing living was in sight, he was much dismayed, and sought high and low for his lost treasure, but all in vain. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 obl _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl:relcl _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 lowest low ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 amod _ _ 20 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 26 compound _ _ 26 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 33 much much ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 dismayed dismay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 sought seek VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 38 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 43 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 amod _ _ 44 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 but but CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 47 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 49 nsubj _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **awake** | past | the king | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **find** | past | the king *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **tie** | past · perfect · passive | | king | | | | to the tree | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient horse=Result | | 4 | **have** | past | the tree | tree's lowest branch | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **break** | participle | tree's lowest branch *not said here* | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **is** | past | nothing living | | | sight | | | tree rules | | 7 | **dismay** | past · passive | | king | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 8 | **seek** | past | the king *not said here* | | | | | high *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **treasure** | | king | | | | | | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/30/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/30/19/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/30/)