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title: Then the King was very angry, and, calling a council together, he ch… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the King was very angry, and, calling a council together, he charged Martin with having been guilty of witchcraft, and of having deceived the King, and having made away with the Princess; and he was condemned to imprisonment in a high stone tower, with neither meat nor drink, till he should die
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 145

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Then the King was very angry, and, calling a council together, he charged Martin with having been guilty of witchcraft, and of having deceived the King, and having made away with the Princess; and he was condemned to imprisonment in a high stone tower, with neither meat nor drink, till he should die of starvation.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** be, call, charge, have, deceive, make away · **To what, where:** council, Martin, King, high stone tower · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg640:33:145
# text = Then the King was very angry, and, calling a council together, he charged Martin with having been guilty of witchcraft, and of having deceived the King, and having made away with the Princess; and he was condemned to imprisonment in a high stone tower, with neither meat nor drink, till he should die of starvation.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
21	guilty	guilty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	aux	_	_
28	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	parataxis	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	aux	_	_
34	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
35	away	away	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	condemned	condemn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	54	det	_	_
54	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
55	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	56	cc	_	_
56	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
58	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
59	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
60	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
61	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	starvation	starvation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the King |  |  |  | then | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | King *not said here* | a council |  |  |  | together *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent council=Recipient |
| 3 | **charge** | past | King | Martin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with having guilty; of witchcraft | tree rules |
| 6 | **deceive** | gerund · perfect |  | the King |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |
| 7 | **make away** | gerund · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | with the Princess; away *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 8 | **condemn** | past · passive |  | King |  | a high stone tower |  | to imprisonment; with neither meat nor drink | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 9 | **die** | should | King |  |  |  |  | of starvation | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of starvation=Causer |

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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.

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**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.

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