--- title: Then the King said, ‘What a powerful fellow that is, carrying that b… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the King said, ‘What a powerful fellow that is, carrying that bale of linen as large as a house on his shoulder!’ and he was much frightened, and thought ‘What a lot of gold he will make away with!’ Who acts: King, powerful fellow, lot. 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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, powerful fellow, lot), 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:pg640:19:64 # text = Then the King said, ‘What a powerful fellow that is, carrying that bale of linen as large as a house on his shoulder!’ and he was much frightened, and thought ‘What a lot of gold he will make away with!’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 bale bale NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 linen linen NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 as as ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 32 much much ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 37 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 40 det _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 ccomp _ _ 46 away away ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 47 with with ADP IN _ 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ! ! PUNCT . _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 2 | **carry** | present · progressive | a powerful fellow | that bale of linen | | King's shoulder | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bale=Theme | | 3 | **frighten** | past · passive | | King | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the King *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **make away** | future | what lot of gold | | | | | away *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | 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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/19/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/19/65/) - ↑ back to [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/19/)