---
title: On arriving at this palace the King had resumed his own form, and th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On arriving at this palace the King had resumed his own form, and though no longer young, he might well have pleased any other than this Princess, who had been so prejudiced against him by his violence that she could only regard him with feelings of hatred, which she was at no pains to conceal. Who 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/17/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/) / 17

# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 17

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
On arriving at this palace the King had resumed his own form, and though no longer young, he might well have pleased any other than this Princess, who had been so prejudiced against him by his violence that she could only regard him with feelings of hatred, which she was at no pains to conceal.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** King, violence, Princess, hatred · **What happens:** arrive, resume, have, prejudice, regard, be · **To what, where:** palace, own form, Princess, King, pains

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (King, violence, Princess, hatred), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg640:20:17
# text = On arriving at this palace the King had resumed his own form, and though no longer young, he might well have pleased any other than this Princess, who had been so prejudiced against him by his violence that she could only regard him with feelings of hatred, which she was at no pains to conceal.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	resumed	resume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	no	no	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
24	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	aux:pass	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	prejudiced	prejudice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
36	against	against	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
41	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
42	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
43	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	only	only	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	regard	regard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	hatred	hatred	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
52	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	57	nsubj	_	_
53	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
55	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	57	det	_	_
57	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
59	conceal	conceal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | gerund | the King *not said here* |  |  | this palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **resume** | past · perfect | the King | King's own form |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | might | King |  |  |  |  | pleased, well *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **prejudice** | past · perfect · passive | King's violence | this Princess |  |  |  | against King | tree rules |
| 5 | **regard** | could | Princess | King |  |  |  | with feelings of hatred and no pains | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | hatred and no pains |  |  | no pains |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **conceal** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **form** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/16/)
- next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/18/)
- ↑ back to [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/)