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title: The King’s son, however, hardly ever stopped crying from the time he… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King’s son, however, hardly ever stopped crying from the time he had been taken from his mother on the deck of the ship, although he had always been such a good child before, so that at last the King had to get a nurse for him--one of the maids of the Court. Who acts: son, King. A sentence of «T
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 29

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The King’s son, however, hardly ever stopped crying from the time he had been taken from his mother on the deck of the ship, although he had always been such a good child before, so that at last the King had to get a nurse for him--one of the maids of the Court.

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**Who acts:** son, King · **What happens:** stop, cry, take, be, have, get · **To what, where:** son, last, nurse

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg640:47:29
# text = The King’s son, however, hardly ever stopped crying from the time he had been taken from his mother on the deck of the ship, although he had always been such a good child before, so that at last the King had to get a nurse for him--one of the maids of the Court.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	33	advmod	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	cop	_	_
34	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	37	det:predet	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
38	before	before	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	_
42	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	obl	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	parataxis	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nmod	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | the King's son |  |  |  | ever | hardly, however *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the King's son *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | son |  |  |  | from son's mother on the deck of the ship | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from mother=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | so that | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | the King |  |  | last |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **get** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | a nurse |  |  |  | for son | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent nurse=Theme for he=Beneficiary |

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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.

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**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.

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