--- title: While the King was at a banquet, Iwanich took some purses of gold, a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: While the King was at a banquet, Iwanich took some purses of gold, and mounting the quickest horse in the royal stable, he sped off like the wind without a single soul being any the wiser. Who acts: King, Iwanich. 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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, Iwanich), 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:pg640:30:56 # text = While the King was at a banquet, Iwanich took some purses of gold, and mounting the quickest horse in the royal stable, he sped off like the wind without a single soul being any the wiser. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 banquet banquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 Iwanich Iwanich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 12 det _ _ 12 purses purse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 mounting mount VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 quickest quick ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 amod _ _ 20 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 stable stable NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 sped speed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 28 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 without without ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 36 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 cop _ _ 37 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 39 det _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 wiser wise ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the King | | | a banquet | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | past | Iwanich | some purses of gold | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme | | 3 | **mount** | gerund | Iwanich *not said here* | the quickest horse | | the royal stable | | | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme in stable=Destination | | 4 | **speed off** | past | King | | | | | like the wind | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | gerund | King *not said here* | | | | | without a single soul; wise *property* | 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 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/57/) - ↑ back to [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/)