--- title: The love the people bore King Peridor was so strong, and the reward… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The love the people bore King Peridor was so strong, and the reward he promised was so large, that in the twinkling of an eye every man, woman, and child had fled into the fields, and the towns were quite empty. Who acts: people, love, bird, reward. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew La --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/11/47/) [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 Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Donkey Cabbage, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/11/) / 47 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 47 The love the people bore King Peridor was so strong, and the reward he promised was so large, that in the twinkling of an eye every man, woman, and child had fled into the fields, and the towns were quite empty. **Who acts:** people, love, bird, reward, child, towns · **What happens:** bear, be, promise, flee · **To what, where:** King, reward, fields This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, love, bird, reward), 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:pg640:11:47 # text = The love the people bore King Peridor was so strong, and the reward he promised was so large, that in the twinkling of an eye every man, woman, and child had fled into the fields, and the towns were quite empty. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 Peridor Peridor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 reward reward NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 twinkling twinkling NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 29 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 fled flee VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 37 into into ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ _ 44 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 45 quite quite ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | past | the people | King | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | | 2 | **is** | past | the love | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | bird | the reward *not said here* | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent reward=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | the reward | | | | | that *obl*; large *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **flee** | past · perfect | child | | | the fields | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **is** | past | the towns | | | | | empty *property* | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/11/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/11/48/) - ↑ back to [The Donkey Cabbage, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/11/)