--- title: At last a celebrated magician from Finland was brought before the Ki… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At last a celebrated magician from Finland was brought before the King, who had found out that the King’s son-in-law was imprisoned in the East, not by men, but by some more powerful being. Who acts: King, men. 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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 (King, men), 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:pg640:5:193 # text = At last a celebrated magician from Finland was brought before the King, who had found out that the King’s son-in-law was imprisoned in the East, not by men, but by some more powerful being. 1 At at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 celebrated celebrate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Finland Finland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 before before ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ’s 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 imprisoned imprison VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 advcl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 by by SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 41 nsubj _ _ 40 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 41 advmod _ _ 41 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 42 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **celebrate** | participle | | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bring** | past · passive | | | | a last celebrated magician from Finland | before the King | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before king=Destination | | 3 | **find out** | past · perfect | the King | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **imprison** | past · passive | men | the King's son in law | | the East | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in east=Destination | 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 192](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/5/192/) - next →: [sentence 194](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/5/194/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon of the North(2)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/5/)