--- title: The King, filled with astonishment, turned to his real son and asked… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King, filled with astonishment, turned to his real son and asked, ‘Was it not you, my son, who conquered my enemies and won such a glorious peace? Who acts: King, astonishment, son. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/78/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Enchanted Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/) / 78 # The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 78 The King, filled with astonishment, turned to his real son and asked, ‘Was it not you, my son, who conquered my enemies and won such a glorious peace? **Who acts:** King, astonishment, son · **What happens:** fill, turn, ask, not be, conquer, win · **To what, where:** King, you, enemies, glorious peace This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, astonishment, son), 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:pg7277:19:78 # text = The King, filled with astonishment, turned to his real son and asked, ‘Was it not you, my son, who conquered my enemies and won such a glorious peace? 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 astonishment astonishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 conquered conquer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 enemies enemy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 31 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 34 det:predet _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 glorious glorious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fill** | participle | | the King *not said here* | | | | with astonishment | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with astonishment=Instrument | | 2 | **turn** | past | the King | | | | | to King's real son *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to son=Result | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the King *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **is a** | past | astonishment | you | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **conquer** | past | my son | my enemies | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient | | 6 | **win** | past | my son *not said here* | such glorious peace | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Eventuality | 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 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/79/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/)