--- title: King Gridelin and Queen Santorina, after all their experiences had n… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: King Gridelin and Queen Santorina, after all their experiences had no further desire to reign, so they retired happily to a peaceful place, leaving their kingdom to the Prince and Princess, who were beloved by all their subjects, and found their greatest happiness all their lives long in making othe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/39/24/) [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/) / [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/39/) / 24 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 24 King Gridelin and Queen Santorina, after all their experiences had no further desire to reign, so they retired happily to a peaceful place, leaving their kingdom to the Prince and Princess, who were beloved by all their subjects, and found their greatest happiness all their lives long in making other people happy. **Who acts:** King, miracles, subjects · **What happens:** have, reign, retire, leave, belov, find · **To what, where:** further desire, kingdom, Prince, greatest happiness, other people This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, miracles, subjects), 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:pg7277:39:24 # text = King Gridelin and Queen Santorina, after all their experiences had no further desire to reign, so they retired happily to a peaceful place, leaving their kingdom to the Prince and Princess, who were beloved by all their subjects, and found their greatest happiness all their lives long in making other people happy. 1 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 2 Gridelin Gridelin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 5 Santorina Santorina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 after after SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 10 det:predet _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 experiences experience NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 13 further further ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 reign reign VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 retired retire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 21 happily happily ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 peaceful peaceful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 37 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 beloved belov VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl:relcl _ _ 39 by by ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 42 det:predet _ _ 41 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 subjects subject NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 46 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 47 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 48 amod _ _ 48 happiness happiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 49 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 51 det:predet _ _ 50 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 51 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obl:unmarked _ _ 52 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 45 advmod _ _ 53 in in SCONJ IN _ 54 mark _ _ 54 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 45 advcl _ _ 55 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 obj _ _ 57 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | King and Queen | no further desire | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | | 2 | **reign** | to-infinitive | King and Queen *not said here* | no further desire *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **retire** | past | miracles *= miracle* | | | | | to a peaceful place; happily *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **leave** | gerund | miracles *= miracle* *not said here* | miracles's kingdom | the Prince and Princess | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme to prince=Recipient | | 5 | **belov** | past · passive | miracles's subjects | the Prince and Princess | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **find** | past | | miracles's greatest happiness | | | | long *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Topic | | 7 | **make** | gerund | | other people | | | | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product | | 8 | **experience** | | miracles *= miracle* | | | | | | nom experience «cognition transitive»: 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/39/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/39/25/) - ↑ back to [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/39/)