--- title: All the people in the land loved him dearly, and called him the Sun-… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: All the people in the land loved him dearly, and called him the Sun-Hero, for they did not think his like existed under the sun. Now it happened one night that both his parents had the same extraordinary dream. Who acts: people, King, parents. 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Now it happened one night that both his parents had the same extraordinary dream. **Who acts:** people, King, parents · **What happens:** love, call, not think, exist, happen, have · **To what, where:** King, sun., one night · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, King, parents), 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:pg640:38:6 # text = All the people in the land loved him dearly, and called him the Sun-Hero, for they did not think his like existed under the sun. Now it happened one night that both his parents had the same extraordinary dream. 1 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 3 det:predet _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 dearly dearly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Hero Hero PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 for for SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 25 like like SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 existed exist VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 advcl _ _ 27 under under ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sun. sun. NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 obj _ _ 36 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 38 det:predet _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 42 extraordinary extraordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** | past | all people in the land | King | | | | dearly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 2 | **call** | past | | | King | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 3 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | people | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **exist** | participle | King *not said here* | | | the sun. | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sun.=Location | | 5 | **happen** | past | King | | | | now; night | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **have** | past | King's parents | one night | | | | | 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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/38/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/38/7/) - ↑ back to [The Death of the Sun-hero (27)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/38/)