--- title: At last it came to the ears of the king what the brother said about… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At last it came to the ears of the king what the brother said about his sister, and, besides that, the report of her beauty spread far and wide, so that the youth was summoned before the king, who asked him if everything was true that was told about the girl. Who acts: palace, brother, report, king. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/31/78/) [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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/31/) / 78 # The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 78 At last it came to the ears of the king what the brother said about his sister, and, besides that, the report of her beauty spread far and wide, so that the youth was summoned before the king, who asked him if everything was true that was told about the girl. **Who acts:** palace, brother, report, king, everything · **What happens:** come, say, spread, summon, ask, be · **To what, where:** last, king, youth, stepson, that, beauty · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, brother, report, king), 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:pg5615:31:78 # text = At last it came to the ears of the king what the brother said about his sister, and, besides that, the report of her beauty spread far and wide, so that the youth was summoned before the king, who asked him if everything was true that was told about the girl. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 obj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 besides besides ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 30 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 summoned summon VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 40 before before ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 45 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ _ 46 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 iobj _ _ 47 if if SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 48 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 50 nsubj _ _ 49 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 50 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 ccomp _ _ 51 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 53 nsubj:pass _ _ 52 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 53 aux:pass _ _ 53 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 parataxis _ _ 54 about about ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | palace | | | last | | to the ears of the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ear=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the brother | the king | | | | about stepson's sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 3 | **spread** | past | the report of report's beauty | | | | | besides that; far *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **summon** | past · passive | | the youth | | | before the king | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the king | | stepson | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | everything | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | that | | | | about the girl | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient about girl=Topic | | 8 | **report** | | | report's beauty | | | | | nom report «communication 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 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/31/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/31/79/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/31/)