--- title: The emperor was so astonished that he forgot to scold, and while he… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The emperor was so astonished that he forgot to scold, and while he was thinking over the matter, some of his pages came in and said that their new companion had been heard to boast that he knew where Iliane was to be found--the celebrated Iliane of the song which begins: Who acts: emperor, two, som --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/61/) [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 Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/) / 61 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 61 The emperor was so astonished that he forgot to scold, and while he was thinking over the matter, some of his pages came in and said that their new companion had been heard to boast that he knew where Iliane was to be found--the celebrated Iliane of the song which begins: **Who acts:** emperor, two, some, new companion, song · **What happens:** be, forget, not scold, think, come in, say · **To what, where:** matter, new companion, Iliane · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, two, some, new companion), 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:pg641:39:61 # text = The emperor was so astonished that he forgot to scold, and while he was thinking over the matter, some of his pages came in and said that their new companion had been heard to boast that he knew where Iliane was to be found--the celebrated Iliane of the song which begins: 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 astonished astonished ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 scold scold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 13 while while SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 17 over over ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 nsubj _ _ 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 pages page NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 26 in in ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 companion companion NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 ccomp _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 boast boast VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 ccomp _ _ 41 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 46 advmod _ _ 42 Iliane Iliane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nsubj:pass _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux:pass _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 45 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 46 aux:pass _ _ 46 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 47 -- -- PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 celebrated celebrate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 amod _ _ 50 Iliane Iliane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 54 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 55 nsubj _ _ 55 begins begin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the emperor | | | | | astonished *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **forget** | past | two | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **scold** | to-infinitive | two *not said here* | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | two | | | the matter | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **come in** | past | some | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | some *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **hear** | past · perfect · passive | | emperors's new companion | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **boast** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | emperors's new companion *not said here* | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **know** | past | two | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 10 | **find** | past · passive | | Iliane | | | | the celebrated Iliane of the song *obl* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 11 | **celebrate** | participle | | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 12 | **begin** | present | the song | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 13 | **page** | | two | | | | | | nom page «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 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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/62/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/)