--- title: When Alfin reached the castle he knocked at the door and said to the… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When Alfin reached the castle he knocked at the door and said to the servant: ‘Here is a basket of lovely figs, if his majesty will be good enough to accept them with my humble duty.’ Who acts: Alfin, basket, majesty. 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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 (Alfin, basket, majesty), 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:pg5615:37:126 # text = When Alfin reached the castle he knocked at the door and said to the servant: ‘Here is a basket of lovely figs, if his majesty will be good enough to accept them with my humble duty.’ 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 Alfin Alfin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 ccomp _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 figs fig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 cop _ _ 31 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ _ 32 enough enough ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 accept accept VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 csubj _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 humble humble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 duty duty NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | past | Alfin | the castle | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | | 2 | **knock** | past | Alfin | | | | | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Alfin *not said here* | | the servant | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | present | a basket of lovely figs | | | | | here *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | Alfin's majesty | | | | | enough, good *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **accept** | to-infinitive | | figs *= fig* | | | | with my humble duty | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/37/125/) - next →: [sentence 127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/37/127/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/37/)