--- title: In a short time all the maidens of the kingdom, including the peasan… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In a short time all the maidens of the kingdom, including the peasant girls, had tried on the ring, and the King was just about to announce that their efforts had been in vain, when the Prince observed that he had not yet seen the shepherdess. Who acts: King, efforts, Prince. A sentence of «The Gree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/24/37/) [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 Dirty Shepherdess](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/24/) / 37 # The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 37 In a short time all the maidens of the kingdom, including the peasant girls, had tried on the ring, and the King was just about to announce that their efforts had been in vain, when the Prince observed that he had not yet seen the shepherdess. **Who acts:** King, efforts, Prince · **What happens:** try, be, observe, not see · **To what, where:** ring, shepherdess This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, efforts, 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:pg7277:24:37 # text = In a short time all the maidens of the kingdom, including the peasant girls, had tried on the ring, and the King was just about to announce that their efforts had been in vain, when the Prince observed that he had not yet seen the shepherdess. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 5 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 7 det:predet _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 appos _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 including including ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 tried try VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 27 just just ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 announce announce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 efforts effort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 35 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 37 cop _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 42 advmod _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 observed observe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 43 that that SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 45 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 46 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 47 yet yet ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 ccomp _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 shepherdess shepherdess NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | past · perfect | | | | the ring | time | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | past | the King | | | | | about, announce *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past · perfect | rings's efforts | | | | | vain *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **observe** | past | the Prince | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | King | the shepherdess | | | yet | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shepherdess=Stimulus | 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/24/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/24/38/) - ↑ back to [The Dirty Shepherdess](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/24/)