--- title: When she had lived there some time, it happened that the King of the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When she had lived there some time, it happened that the King of the country was hunting in the forest, and his hunters came to the tree on which the maiden sat. They called to her and said ‘Who are you?’ Who acts: maiden, it, King, hunters. 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They called to her and said ‘Who are you?’ **Who acts:** maiden, it, King, hunters, maiden sat., you · **What happens:** live, happen, hunt, come, call, say · **To what, where:** forest, tree, maiden · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, it, King, hunters), 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:pg640:4:52 # text = When she had lived there some time, it happened that the King of the country was hunting in the forest, and his hunters came to the tree on which the maiden sat. They called to her and said ‘Who are you?’ 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 lived live VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 5 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 6 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 hunting hunt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 obl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 maiden maiden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 sat. Saturday PROPN NNP Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 41 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 parataxis _ _ 43 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 44 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past · perfect | maiden | | | there | time | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **happen** | past | it | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **hunt** | past · progressive | the King of the country | | | the forest | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | | 4 | **come** | past | king's hunters | | | the tree | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **call** | past | the maiden sat. | | maiden | the tree | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king's hunters *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** | present | you | | | | | | 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 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/4/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/4/53/) - ↑ back to [The Six Swans](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/4/)