--- title: The King, who had given up all hopes of his son’s recovery, replied:… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King, who had given up all hopes of his son’s recovery, replied: ‘Only restore him to life and health and he shall be yours. Who acts: King, recovery, son. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/67/) [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 Snake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/) / 67 # The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 67 The King, who had given up all hopes of his son’s recovery, replied: ‘Only restore him to life and health and he shall be yours. **Who acts:** King, recovery, son · **What happens:** give up, reply, restore, be, hope, recover · **To what, where:** King, hopes, life, yours This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, recovery, 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:pg7277:25:67 # text = The King, who had given up all hopes of his son’s recovery, replied: ‘Only restore him to life and health and he shall be yours. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 hopes hope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’s 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 recovery recovery NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 replied reply VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Only only ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 restore restore VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 30 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give up** | past · perfect · passive | | the King | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle · passive | | all hopes of King's son's recovery | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | | 3 | **restore** | infinitive | | King | life and health | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to life=Recipient | | 4 | **is a** | shall | King | yours | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hope** | | King's son's recovery | | | | | | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent | | 6 | **recover** | | King's son | | | | | | nom recovery «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/68/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Snake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/)