--- title: When the King heard that he had to thank him alone for the victory,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the King heard that he had to thank him alone for the victory, he raised him higher than anyone else in rank, gave him great treasures and made him the first in the kingdom. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/46/8/) [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 Three Snake-leaves](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/46/) / 8 # The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 8 When the King heard that he had to thank him alone for the victory, he raised him higher than anyone else in rank, gave him great treasures and made him the first in the kingdom. **Who acts:** King · **What happens:** hear, have, thank, raise, give, make · **To what, where:** King, youth, great treasures, kingdom · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. 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:pg7277:46:8 # text = When the King heard that he had to thank him alone for the victory, he raised him higher than anyone else in rank, gave him great treasures and made him the first in the kingdom. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 thank thank VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 alone alone ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 victory victory NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 amod _ _ 20 than than ADP IN _ 19 fixed _ _ 21 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 17 obj _ _ 22 else else ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 rank rank NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 treasures treasure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 31 xcomp _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | the King | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** | past | King | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | | King | | | for the victory; alone *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for victory=Attribute | | 4 | **raise** | past | King | youth | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent he=Theme anyone=Destination | | 5 | **give** | past | King *not said here* | great treasures | youth | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient treasure=Theme | | 6 | **make** | past | King *not said here* | youth | | the kingdom | | first *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/46/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/46/9/) - ↑ back to [The Three Snake-leaves](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/46/)