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title: The King saw at once that it was his own Queen, and immediately hewe… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King saw at once that it was his own Queen, and immediately hewed asunder the iron chain that was fastened to the belt. Who acts: King, chain, hewed asunder. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 53

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The King saw at once that it was his own Queen, and immediately hewed asunder the iron chain that was fastened to the belt.

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**Who acts:** King, chain, hewed asunder · **What happens:** see, be, hew, chain, fasten · **To what, where:** own Queen, iron chain

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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 (King, chain, hewed asunder), 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:pg640:47:53
# text = The King saw at once that it was his own Queen, and immediately hewed asunder the iron chain that was fastened to the belt.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	hewed	hew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	asunder	asunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | chain | thing's own Queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hew** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **chain** |  | hewed asunder |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fasten** | past · passive |  | the iron chain |  |  |  | to the belt | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to belt=Co-Patient |

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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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