--- title: At last they came to the king and said to him, ‘O king! your palace… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At last they came to the king and said to him, ‘O king! your palace is beautiful indeed, but to be worthy of you it lacks one thing--the sword of the Man-eater.’ Who acts: brothers, king, palace. 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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 (brothers, king, palace), 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:pg5615:38:21 # text = At last they came to the king and said to him, ‘O king! your palace is beautiful indeed, but to be worthy of you it lacks one thing--the sword of the Man-eater.’ 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|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 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 O o INTJ UH _ 15 discourse _ _ 15 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ! ! PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 21 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 26 worthy worthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 advcl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 lacks lack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 -- -- PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 Man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 eater eater NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | brothers *= brother* | | | last | | to the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | | king | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | present | king | | | | | beautiful, indeed *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | palace *not said here* | | | | | of you; worthy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **lack** | present | palace | one thing | | | | | 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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/38/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/38/22/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/38/)