--- title: ‘It is this,’ said the King: ‘that you find for me my gold cloak, my… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘It is this,’ said the King: ‘that you find for me my gold cloak, my gold chess-board, and my bright gold piece, that were stolen from me about a year ago. Who acts: favour, this, you. 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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 (favour, this, you), 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:pg640:42:92 # text = ‘It is this,’ said the King: ‘that you find for me my gold cloak, my gold chess-board, and my bright gold piece, that were stolen from me about a year ago. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 cloak cloak NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 22 gold gold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 23 chess chess NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 29 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 38 about about ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl:unmarked _ _ 41 ago ago ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | favour | this | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | this | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **find** | present | you | my gold cloak and my gold chess board | | | | for me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme for i=Beneficiary | | 4 | **steal** | past · passive | | my bright gold piece | | | | from me; ago *property* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from i=Source | 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 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/93/) - ↑ back to [Prince Ring (30)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/42/)