--- title: After this the King set Ring next to himself, and all esteemed him h… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: After this the King set Ring next to himself, and all esteemed him highly, and held him to be a great hero; nor could Red any longer say anything against him, though he grew still more determined to destroy him. Who acts: Prince. 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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 (Prince), 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:pg640:42:82 # text = After this the King set Ring next to himself, and all esteemed him highly, and held him to be a great hero; nor could Red any longer say anything against him, though he grew still more determined to destroy him. 1 After after ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 set set NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 next next ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 esteemed esteem VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 highly highly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 27 cc _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 28 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 flat _ _ 29 any any ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 31 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 parataxis _ _ 32 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 31 obj _ _ 33 against against ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 though though SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 39 still still ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 40 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 41 advmod _ _ 41 determined determined ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 44 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **esteem** | participle · passive | | all | | | | highly *property* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme he=Attribute | | 2 | **hold** | past | | Prince | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | a great hero | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | could | | anything | | | | against Prince; long *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | | 5 | **grow** | past | Prince | | | | | determined *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | Prince | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | 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 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/81/) - next →: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/83/) - ↑ back to [Prince Ring (30)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/)