--- title: It was as small as kingdoms usually were in old times, and when the… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It was as small as kingdoms usually were in old times, and when the king went up to the roof of his palace and took a look round he could see to the ends of it in every direction. Who acts: kingdom, king. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/2/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [Jesper Who Herded the Hares](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/) / 2 # The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 2 It was as small as kingdoms usually were in old times, and when the king went up to the roof of his palace and took a look round he could see to the ends of it in every direction. **Who acts:** kingdom, king · **What happens:** be, go up, take, see · **To what, where:** look, direction This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kingdom, 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:pg641:24:2 # text = It was as small as kingdoms usually were in old times, and when the king went up to the roof of his palace and took a look round he could see to the ends of it in every direction. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 as as ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 kingdoms kingdom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 usually usually ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 round round ADP IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 ends end NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nmod _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 40 det _ _ 40 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | kingdom | | | | | as kingdoms; small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | | | | | in old times | usually *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **go up** | past | the king | | | | | to the roof of king's palace | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **take** | past | the king *not said here* | a look | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Theme | | 5 | **see** | could | king | | | every direction | to the ends of kingdom | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/3/) - ↑ back to [Jesper Who Herded the Hares](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/)