--- title: Said the King: ‘If the thing is possible your wish shall be fulfille… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Said the King: ‘If the thing is possible your wish shall be fulfilled’; and he had his kingdom searched till he found eleven maidens of the same height, size, and appearance as his daughter. Who acts: King, thing, kingdom, your. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsme --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/43/15/) [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 Twelve Huntsmen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/43/) / 15 # The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 15 Said the King: ‘If the thing is possible your wish shall be fulfilled’; and he had his kingdom searched till he found eleven maidens of the same height, size, and appearance as his daughter. **Who acts:** King, thing, kingdom, your · **What happens:** say, be, fulfil, have, search, find · **To what, where:** wish, eleven maidens · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, thing, kingdom, your), 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:pg7277:43:15 # text = Said the King: ‘If the thing is possible your wish shall be fulfilled’; and he had his kingdom searched till he found eleven maidens of the same height, size, and appearance as his daughter. 1 Said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 5 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 If if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 ccomp _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 fulfilled fulfil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 searched search VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 24 till till SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 27 eleven eleven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 appearance appearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 ccomp _ _ 38 as as ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the thing | | | | | possible *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **fulfil** | shall · passive | | your wish | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | past | King | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **search** | past | King's kingdom | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **find** | past | kingdom | eleven maidens of the same height and size | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Topic | | 7 | **wish** | | your | | | | | | nom wish «feeling 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/43/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/43/16/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Huntsmen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/43/)