--- title: At these words the Princess burst into tears, and when the King saw… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At these words the Princess burst into tears, and when the King saw this he ordered her to be shut up in a high tower and carefully guarded till the dangerous magician should either have left the kingdom or been hung on the nearest tree. Who acts: Princess, King. 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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 (Princess, 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:pg640:15:20 # text = At these words the Princess burst into tears, and when the King saw this he ordered her to be shut up in a high tower and carefully guarded till the dangerous magician should either have left the kingdom or been hung on the nearest tree. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 burst burst VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 15 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 obj _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 shut shut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 xcomp _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 guarded guard VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 30 till till ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 35 either either ADV RB PronType=Ind 37 advmod _ _ 36 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 aux _ _ 37 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 parataxis _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 or or CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 hung hang VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 conj _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 46 amod _ _ 46 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burst** | past | the Princess | | | this words | | into tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at word=Location | | 2 | **see** | past | the King | this | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | | 3 | **order** | past | King | | Princess | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **shut up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | King *not said here* | | | a high tower | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP» | | 5 | **guard** | participle | King *not said here* | | | | till the dangerous magician | carefully *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **leave** | should · perfect | | the kingdom | | | | either *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | | 7 | **hang** | participle · passive | | | | the nearest tree | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: on tree=Location | 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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/15/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/15/21/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/15/)