--- title: The king was quite charmed to get rid so easily of such plagues, and… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The king was quite charmed to get rid so easily of such plagues, and the queen desired that the creature who had done them so great a kindness might be brought to her, that she might look at her. Who acts: queen, creature. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/72/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Whittington and His Cat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/) / 72 # English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 72 The king was quite charmed to get rid so easily of such plagues, and the queen desired that the creature who had done them so great a kindness might be brought to her, that she might look at her. **Who acts:** queen, creature · **What happens:** charm, get, desire, do, bring, look · **To what, where:** king, plagues, kindness, creature This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, creature), 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:pg7439:37:72 # text = The king was quite charmed to get rid so easily of such plagues, and the queen desired that the creature who had done them so great a kindness might be brought to her, that she might look at her. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 quite quite ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 charmed charm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 8 rid rid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 easily easily ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 plagues plague NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 desired desire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 ccomp _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **charm** | past · passive | | the king | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | | | | | | easily, rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **desire** | past | the queen | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **do** | past · perfect | the creature | plagues *= plague* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | | 5 | **bring** | might · passive | | a kindness | creature | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to she=Destination | | 6 | **look** | might | queen | | | | | at creature | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/73/) - ↑ back to [Whittington and His Cat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/)