--- title: Six months went by, and then came the joyful news that the king’s so… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Six months went by, and then came the joyful news that the king’s son had collected an army and had defeated the usurper who had taken his father’s place, but at the same moment Dotterine learned that the old king had died in captivity. Who acts: Six months, usurper, Dotterine, old king. 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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 (Six months, usurper, Dotterine, old king), 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:pg641:12:106 # text = Six months went by, and then came the joyful news that the king’s son had collected an army and had defeated the usurper who had taken his father’s place, but at the same moment Dotterine learned that the old king had died in captivity. 1 Six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 8 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 joyful joyful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ’s 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 collected collect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 defeated defeat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 usurper usurper NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ’s 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 39 Dotterine Dotterine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 41 that that SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 45 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 40 ccomp _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 captivity captivity NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go by** | past | Six months | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | Six months *not said here* | the joyful news | | | then | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location news=Theme | | 3 | **collect** | past · perfect · passive | | the king's son | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **defeat** | past · perfect | | the usurper | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take** | past · perfect | the usurper | army's father's place | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 6 | **learn** | past | Dotterine | | | | moment | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **die** | past · perfect | the old king | | | | | in captivity | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in captivity=Attribute | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/105/) - next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/107/) - ↑ back to [The Child Who Came From an Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/)