--- title: The King screamed aloud in agony, and when his wife, the Snow-daught… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King screamed aloud in agony, and when his wife, the Snow-daughter, who had taken refuge from her brother in the next room, hurried to him, the King lay dead on the ground burnt to a cinder. Who acts: King, Snow daughter, wife. 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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, Snow daughter, wife), 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:pg640:36:48 # text = The King screamed aloud in agony, and when his wife, the Snow-daughter, who had taken refuge from her brother in the next room, hurried to him, the King lay dead on the ground burnt to a cinder. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 screamed scream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 agony agony NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 Snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 acl:relcl _ _ 21 refuge refuge NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 30 hurried hurry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 37 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 burnt burnt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 cinder cinder NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scream** *speech: express* | past | the King | | | agony | | aloud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in agony=Location | | 2 | **take** | past · perfect | the Snow daughter | refuge | | the next room | | from wife's brother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme from brother=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **hurry** | past | King's wife and the Snow daughter | | King | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to he=Result | | 4 | **lay** | present | the King | | | the ground | | dead *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination | | 5 | **burnt** | participle | | the ground *not said here* | | | | to a cinder | 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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/36/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/36/49/) - ↑ back to [The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/36/)