--- title: But the King came towards her and gave her his hand, and danced with… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But the King came towards her and gave her his hand, and danced with her, thinking to himself, ‘My eyes have never beheld anyone so fair!’ Who acts: King. 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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 (King), 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:pg7277:42:39 # text = But the King came towards her and gave her his hand, and danced with her, thinking to himself, ‘My eyes have never beheld anyone so fair!’ 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 towards towards ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 csubj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 22 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 beheld behold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ _ 28 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obl _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ! ! PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the King | | | | | towards cook | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards she=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **give** | past | the King *not said here* | King's hand | cook | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient hand=Theme | | 3 | **dance** | past | the King *not said here* | anyone | | | | with cook | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | | | King | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **behold** | present · perfect · passive | | My eyes | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | 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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/40/) - ↑ back to [Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/)