--- title: The King now gave his consent, and the wedding was fixed for the ver… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King now gave his consent, and the wedding was fixed for the very next day. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/7/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Golden Crab(5)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/7/) / 27 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 27 The King now gave his consent, and the wedding was fixed for the very next day. **Who acts:** King · **What happens:** give, fix, consent · **To what, where:** consent, wedding This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg640:426`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:7:27 # text = The King now gave his consent, and the wedding was fixed for the very next day. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 4 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 consent consent NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 very very ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | the King | King's consent | | | now | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme | | 2 | **fix** | past · passive | | the wedding | | | day | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **consent** | | King | | | | | | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/7/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/7/28/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Crab(5)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/7/)