--- title: With these words he vanished, leaving the courtiers sadly perplexed;… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: With these words he vanished, leaving the courtiers sadly perplexed; but as all their efforts to find the Prince were useless they had no choice but to go home, bringing with them the sad news, which so greatly distressed the King that he fell ill and died not long after. Who acts: MONKEY, efforts. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/92/) [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 Glass Mountain(16), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/) / 92 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 92 With these words he vanished, leaving the courtiers sadly perplexed; but as all their efforts to find the Prince were useless they had no choice but to go home, bringing with them the sad news, which so greatly distressed the King that he fell ill and died not long after. **Who acts:** MONKEY, efforts · **What happens:** vanish, leave, perplex, find, be, have · **To what, where:** courtiers, Prince, choice, sad news This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MONKEY, efforts), 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:pg640:22:92 # text = With these words he vanished, leaving the courtiers sadly perplexed; but as all their efforts to find the Prince were useless they had no choice but to go home, bringing with them the sad news, which so greatly distressed the King that he fell ill and died not long after. 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 vanished vanish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 courtiers courtier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 sadly sadly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 perplexed perplex VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 15 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 17 det:predet _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 efforts effort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 useless useless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 advcl _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 26 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 27 det _ _ 27 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 31 home home ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 bringing bring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 obj _ _ 41 so so ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 42 greatly greatly ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 distressed distress VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 that that SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 47 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 advcl _ _ 49 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 xcomp _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 conj _ _ 52 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 51 advmod _ _ 53 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 51 advmod _ _ 54 after after ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **vanish** | past | MONKEY | | | | | with this words | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **leave** | gerund | MONKEY *not said here* | the courtiers | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courtier=Theme | | 3 | **perplex** | participle | | the courtiers *not said here* | | | | sadly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | courtiers's efforts *not said here* | the Prince | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | | 5 | **is** | past | courtiers's efforts | | | | | useless *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **have** | past | efforts *= effort* | no choice | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient | | 7 | **go** | to-infinitive | efforts *= effort* *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **bring** | gerund | efforts *= effort* *not said here* | the sad news | | | | with efforts *= effort* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent news=Theme | | 9 | **distress** | past | efforts *= effort* *not said here* | the sad news | | | | greatly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer king=Result | | 10 | **fall** | past | MONKEY | | | | | ill *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **not** **die** | past | MONKEY *not said here* | | | | | after, long *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/93/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/)