--- title: The king woke at this, thinking at first that he had fallen into a d… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The king woke at this, thinking at first that he had fallen into a den of robbers, but he decided to keep quiet and pretend that he was asleep until he should find out what kind of folk were in the house. Who acts: king, kind. 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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, kind), 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:pg5615:34:17 # text = The king woke at this, thinking at first that he had fallen into a den of robbers, but he decided to keep quiet and pretend that he was asleep until he should find out what kind of folk were in the house. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 woke wake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 obl _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 robbers robber NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 decided decide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 pretend pretend ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 32 until until SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 36 out out ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 38 det _ _ 38 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wake** | past | the king | | | this | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the king *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fall** | past · perfect | king | | | | | into a den of robbers *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into den=Result | | 4 | **decide** | past | king | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | | | | | quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | king | | | | | asleep *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **find out** | should | king | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | past | what kind of folk | | | the house | | | tree rules | 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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/34/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/34/18/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/34/)