--- title: Then the mild King answered: ‘Beloved Prince and son-in-law, if you… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the mild King answered: ‘Beloved Prince and son-in-law, if you love me, let your anger be turned to grace--forgive my daughter, and restore her to your heart and favour.’ Who acts: mild King, you, anger, your. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/206/) [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/) / 206 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 206 Then the mild King answered: ‘Beloved Prince and son-in-law, if you love me, let your anger be turned to grace--forgive my daughter, and restore her to your heart and favour.’ **Who acts:** mild King, you, anger, your · **What happens:** answer, love, let, turn, grace, forgive · **To what, where:** me, anger, daughter, punishment, heart 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 (mild King, you, anger, your), 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:pg640:33:206 # text = Then the mild King answered: ‘Beloved Prince and son-in-law, if you love me, let your anger be turned to grace--forgive my daughter, and restore her to your heart and favour.’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 mild mild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 7 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Beloved beloved ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 xcomp _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 grace grace VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 -- -- PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 forgive forgive VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 31 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 restore restore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the mild King | | | | then | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **love** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | me | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | your anger | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **turn** | infinitive · passive | your anger *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **grace** | infinitive | your anger *not said here* | | | | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **forgive** | infinitive | | my daughter | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | | 7 | **restore** | infinitive | you *not said here* | punishment | your heart and favour | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to heart=Recipient | | 8 | **anger** | | your | | | | | | nom anger «feeling 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 205](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/205/) - next →: [sentence 207](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/207/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/)