--- title: Very soon after, there arrived upon the frontier the Ambassador of a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Very soon after, there arrived upon the frontier the Ambassador of a very powerful King, who sent to Farda-Kinbras the following letter, at the same time demanding permission to enter the capital in state to receive the answer: Who acts: Ambassador, same time. 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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 (Ambassador, same time), 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:pg7277:16:43 # text = Very soon after, there arrived upon the frontier the Ambassador of a very powerful King, who sent to Farda-Kinbras the following letter, at the same time demanding permission to enter the capital in state to receive the answer: 1 Very very ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 3 after after SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 6 expl _ _ 6 arrived arrive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 upon upon ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 frontier frontier NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Ambassador Ambassador PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl:agent _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 very very ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Farda Farda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Kinbras Kinbras PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 amod _ _ 26 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 32 demanding demand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 33 permission permission NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 enter enter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 receive receive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrive** | participle | | | | there | | upon the frontier; soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **send** | past | the Ambassador of a powerful King | the following letter | Farda and Kinbras | | time | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to farda=Destination | | 3 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **demand** *speech: request* | gerund | the same time *not said here* | permission | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme permission=Precondition | | 5 | **enter** | to-infinitive | the same time *not said here* | the capital | | state | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme capital=Destination | | 6 | **receive** | to-infinitive | the same time *not said here* | the answer | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | 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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/16/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/16/44/) - ↑ back to [Heart of Ice, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/16/)