---
title: The king mourned her long and faithfully, but one day while he was h… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The king mourned her long and faithfully, but one day while he was hunting he came across a lady of great beauty, and became so much in love with her that he determined to marry her. Who acts: king. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, with its 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/39/3/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/39/) / 3

# English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 3

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The king mourned her long and faithfully, but one day while he was hunting he came across a lady of great beauty, and became so much in love with her that he determined to marry her.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** mourn, hunt, come, become, determine, marry · **To what, where:** one day, mother

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. 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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg7439:39:3
# text = The king mourned her long and faithfully, but one day while he was hunting he came across a lady of great beauty, and became so much in love with her that he determined to marry her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mourned	mourn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	across	across	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mourn** | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **hunt** | past · progressive | king | one day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | king |  |  |  | day | across a lady of great beauty | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across lady=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **become** | past | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | much *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **determine** | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **marry** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | mother |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/39/2/)
- next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/39/4/)
- ↑ back to [The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/39/)