--- title: Therefore it was with great joy he heard that she was living and tha… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Therefore it was with great joy he heard that she was living and that a king’s son asked her in marriage, and he quitted his kingdom with his elder daughter so as to be present at the ceremony. Who acts: harshness, father, Princess, son. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/24/44/) [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/) / 44 # The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 44 Therefore it was with great joy he heard that she was living and that a king’s son asked her in marriage, and he quitted his kingdom with his elder daughter so as to be present at the ceremony. **Who acts:** harshness, father, Princess, son · **What happens:** be, hear, live, ask, quitt · **To what, where:** great joy, Princess, marriage, kingdom, ceremony · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (harshness, father, Princess, 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:pg7277:24:44 # text = Therefore it was with great joy he heard that she was living and that a king’s son asked her in marriage, and he quitted his kingdom with his elder daughter so as to be present at the ceremony. 1 Therefore therefore ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 ccomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ’s 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 quitted quitt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 elder elder NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 cop _ _ 37 present present ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 ccomp _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 ceremony ceremony NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | harshness | | | | | with great joy; therefore *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hear** | past | father | great joy *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | past · progressive | Princess | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a king's son | | Princess | marriage | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 5 | **quitt** | past | father | father's kingdom | | | | with father's elder daughter | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | father *not said here* | | | the ceremony | | present *property* | 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 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/24/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/24/45/) - ↑ back to [The Dirty Shepherdess](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/24/)