--- title: When the knight, who was a very handsome young man, rode up, he wond… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the knight, who was a very handsome young man, rode up, he wondered to see the marvellous tree of gold and silver, and said to the two sisters, ‘Whose is this beautiful tree? Who acts: knight. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight), 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:pg7277:40:99 # text = When the knight, who was a very handsome young man, rode up, he wondered to see the marvellous tree of gold and silver, and said to the two sisters, ‘Whose is this beautiful tree? 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 wondered wonder VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 marvellous marvellous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 40 nmod:poss _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 det _ _ 39 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ? ? PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the knight | a handsome young man | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ride up** | past | the knight | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | knight | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | knight *not said here* | the marvellous tree of gold and silver | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | knight *not said here* | | the two sisters | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient | | 6 | **is a** | present | | this beautiful tree | | | | | 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 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/100/) - ↑ back to [Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/)