--- title: For a long time the king refused to give him leave; but at last, wea… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: For a long time the king refused to give him leave; but at last, wearied out, he granted permission, and ordered his treasurer to produce a large sum of money for the prince’s expenses. Who acts: king, treasurer. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/2/) [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/) / [The Prince Who Wanted to See the World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/) / 2 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 2 For a long time the king refused to give him leave; but at last, wearied out, he granted permission, and ordered his treasurer to produce a large sum of money for the prince’s expenses. **Who acts:** king, treasurer · **What happens:** refuse, not give, leave, weary out, grant, order · **To what, where:** king, last, permission, treasurer, large sum, money This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, treasurer), 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:pg641:42:2 # text = For a long time the king refused to give him leave; but at last, wearied out, he granted permission, and ordered his treasurer to produce a large sum of money for the prince’s expenses. 1 For for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 iobj _ _ 11 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 wearied weary VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 granted grant VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 22 permission permission NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 treasurer treasurer NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 produce produce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ’s 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 expenses expense NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **refuse** | past | the king | | | | time | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **not** **give** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | | king | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **leave** | infinitive | the king *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **weary out** | participle | the king *not said here* | | | last | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **grant** | past | king | permission | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent permission=Theme | | 6 | **order** | past | king *not said here* | king's treasurer | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent treasurer=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **produce** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | king's treasurer *not said here* | a large sum of money | | | | for the prince's expenses | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sum=Result for expense=Beneficiary | | 8 | **sum** | | | money | | | | for the prince's expenses | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient for=obl | 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/pg641/42/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/3/) - ↑ back to [The Prince Who Wanted to See the World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/)