--- title: And when the king saw these tokens he knew that the prince was speak… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And when the king saw these tokens he knew that the prince was speaking the truth. Who acts: king, prince. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/90/) [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 Three Princes and Their Beasts (li…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/) / 90 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 90 And when the king saw these tokens he knew that the prince was speaking the truth. **Who acts:** king, prince · **What happens:** see, know, speak · **To what, where:** tokens, truth · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, prince), 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:pg641:5:90 # text = And when the king saw these tokens he knew that the prince was speaking the truth. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 6 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 7 tokens token NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 speaking speak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | the king | this tokens | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer token=Stimulus | | 2 | **know** | past | king | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · progressive | the prince | the truth | | | | | tree rules | 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 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/91/) - ↑ back to [The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/)