--- title: And it was all done as he commanded, and, leaving the Starvation Tow… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And it was all done as he commanded, and, leaving the Starvation Tower, he took the King, his father-in-law, by the arm, and led him into the new palace, where the Princess sat in fear and trembling, awaiting her death. Who acts: Martin, Princess. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/203/) [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 Magic Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/) / 203 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 203 And it was all done as he commanded, and, leaving the Starvation Tower, he took the King, his father-in-law, by the arm, and led him into the new palace, where the Princess sat in fear and trembling, awaiting her death. **Who acts:** Martin, Princess · **What happens:** do, command, leave, take, lead, sit · **To what, where:** chamber, Starvation Tower, King, law, new palace, fear · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Martin, Princess), 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:pg640:33:203 # text = And it was all done as he commanded, and, leaving the Starvation Tower, he took the King, his father-in-law, by the arm, and led him into the new palace, where the Princess sat in fear and trembling, awaiting her death. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 all all ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 Starvation Starvation PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Tower Tower PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 into into ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 44 advmod _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 44 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 trembling tremble VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 46 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 awaiting await VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 51 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past · passive | | chamber | | | | all *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **command** | past | Martin | | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **leave** | gerund | Martin *not said here* | the Starvation Tower | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Theme | | 4 | **take** | past | Martin | the King | | law | | by the arm | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent king=Value in law=Location | | 5 | **lead** | past | Martin *not said here* | King | | the new palace | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into palace=Destination | | 6 | **sit** | past | the Princess | | | fear | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fear=Location | | 7 | **tremble** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **await** | gerund | Martin *not said here* | Princess's death | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **die** | | Princess | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 202](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/202/) - next →: [sentence 204](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/204/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/)