--- title: In short they became firm friends, and the King proudly displayed to… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In short they became firm friends, and the King proudly displayed to Mannikin the portrait of the Queen of the Spice Islands, and he quite agreed that it was worth while to go through anything for the sake of a creature so lovely. Who acts: things, King, it. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, King, it), 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:pg7277:15:25 # text = In short they became firm friends, and the King proudly displayed to Mannikin the portrait of the Queen of the Spice Islands, and he quite agreed that it was worth while to go through anything for the sake of a creature so lovely. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 firm firm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 proudly proudly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 displayed display VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Mannikin Mannikin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 portrait portrait NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Spice Spice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Islands Island PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 quite quite ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 agreed agree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 ccomp _ _ 33 while while SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 csubj _ _ 36 through through ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 35 obl _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 so so ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | things *= thing* | firm friends | | | | in short *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in short=Result | | 2 | **display** | past | the King | the portrait of the Queen of the Spice Islands | Mannikin | | | proudly *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme to mannikin=Recipient | | 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | King | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past | it | | | | | worth *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | | | | anything | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through anything=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **portray** | | | the Queen of the Spice Islands | | | | | nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/26/) - ↑ back to [Heart of Ice, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/)