--- title: At last, when all was ready, the King commanded the cloak to be brou… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At last, when all was ready, the King commanded the cloak to be brought to him, and he spread it out before the Princess, and said, ‘Tomorrow shall be your wedding-day.’ Who acts: all, King, Tomorrow. 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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 (all, King, Tomorrow), 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:pg7277:42:16 # text = At last, when all was ready, the King commanded the cloak to be brought to him, and he spread it out before the Princess, and said, ‘Tomorrow shall be your wedding-day.’ 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 cloak cloak NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 25 before before ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 32 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 Tomorrow tomorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 34 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 cop _ _ 36 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 37 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | all | | | last | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **command** | past | the King | the cloak | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent cloak=Eventuality | | 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive · passive | the King *not said here* | the cloak *not said here* | King | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to he=Destination | | 4 | **spread out** | past | King | cloak | | | before the Princess | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme before princess=Destination | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | shall | Tomorrow | your wedding day | | | | | 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/17/) - ↑ back to [Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/)