--- title: She told him he must build a castle on the other side of the lake, m… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She told him he must build a castle on the other side of the lake, made of nothing but gold, silver, and precious stones, and unless he could accomplish this within an hour, the most frightful doom awaited him. Who acts: Fairy, Prince, frightful doom. 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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 (Fairy, Prince, frightful doom), 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:pg640:25:81 # text = She told him he must build a castle on the other side of the lake, made of nothing but gold, silver, and precious stones, and unless he could accomplish this within an hour, the most frightful doom awaited him. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 obl _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 accomplish accomplish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 34 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 obj _ _ 35 within within ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 40 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 41 advmod _ _ 41 frightful frightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 doom doom NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 awaited await VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 44 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Fairy | precious stones | Prince | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **build** | must | Prince | a castle | | the other side of the lake | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent castle=Theme on side=Source | | 3 | **make** | participle | | the lake *not said here* | | | | of nothing | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **accomplish** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | Prince | this | | | hour | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | | 5 | **await** | past | the frightful doom | Prince | | | | | 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 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/82/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/)