--- title: The King at last allowed himself, though rather unwillingly, to be w… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King at last allowed himself, though rather unwillingly, to be won over by Red’s persistency, and one day asked Ring to go and kill the oxen that were in the wood for him, and bring their horns and hides to him in the evening. Who acts: persistency, one day, oxen. 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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 (persistency, one day, oxen), 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:pg640:42:68 # text = The King at last allowed himself, though rather unwillingly, to be won over by Red’s persistency, and one day asked Ring to go and kill the oxen that were in the wood for him, and bring their horns and hides to him in the evening. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 at at SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 though though SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 9 rather rather ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 unwillingly unwillingly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 won win VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 15 over over ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’s 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 persistency persistency NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 Ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 oxen ox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 33 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 acl:relcl _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 42 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obl _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **allow** | participle · passive | | the King | Red | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal himself=Theme | | 2 | **win over** | to-infinitive · passive | Red's persistency | | | | | unwillingly *property* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | one day | Ring | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent ring=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | one day *not said here* | Ring *not said here* | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **kill** | infinitive | one day *not said here* | the oxen | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | the oxen | | | the wood | | for Red | tree rules | | 7 | **bring** | infinitive | | King's horns | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent horn=Theme | | 8 | **hide** | present | | | Red | | evening | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/69/) - ↑ back to [Prince Ring (30)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/)