--- title: So he went out sadly and told his guards that the empress was to be… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So he went out sadly and told his guards that the empress was to be buried in the earth up to her neck, so that everyone might know what would happen to those who dared to deceive the emperor. Who acts: emperor, everyone. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/36/) [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/) / [The Boys With the Golden Stars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/) / 36 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 36 So he went out sadly and told his guards that the empress was to be buried in the earth up to her neck, so that everyone might know what would happen to those who dared to deceive the emperor. **Who acts:** emperor, everyone · **What happens:** go out, tell, bury up, know, happen, dare · **To what, where:** guards, empress, earth, emperor · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, everyone), 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:pg641:35:36 # text = So he went out sadly and told his guards that the empress was to be buried in the earth up to her neck, so that everyone might know what would happen to those who dared to deceive the emperor. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 sadly sadly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 guards guard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 iobj _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 empress empress NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 advcl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 29 mark _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 fixed _ _ 27 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 29 nsubj _ _ 28 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 30 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 32 nsubj _ _ 31 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 32 obl _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 dared dare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 deceive deceive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go out** | past | emperor | | | | | out, sadly *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | emperor *not said here* | | emperor's guards | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **bury up** | past · passive | | the empress | | the earth | | to Laptitza's neck | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in earth=Destination | | 4 | **know** | might | everyone | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **happen** | would | | | | | | to those | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **dare** | past | | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **deceive** | to-infinitive | | the emperor | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Patient | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/37/) - ↑ back to [The Boys With the Golden Stars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/)