--- title: But the king hearing of a lady who had likewise an only daughter, ha… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But the king hearing of a lady who had likewise an only daughter, had a mind to marry her for the sake of her riches, though she was old, ugly, hook-nosed, and hump-backed. Who acts: lady, king hearing, hearing. 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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 (lady, king hearing, hearing), 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:pg7439:49:3 # text = But the king hearing of a lady who had likewise an only daughter, had a mind to marry her for the sake of her riches, though she was old, ugly, hook-nosed, and hump-backed. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 hearing hearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 likewise likewise ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 15 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 riches rich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 though though SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 hook hook NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 nosed nose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 hump hump NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 backed back VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | a lady | a only daughter | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | past | the king hearing of a lady | a mind | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 3 | **marry** | to-infinitive | the king hearing of a lady *not said here* | hearing | | | | for the sake of hearing's riches | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 4 | **is** | past | hearing | | | | | old *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | hearing *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **nose** | participle | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **back** | participle | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **hear** | | a lady | | | | | | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=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:** «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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/49/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/49/4/) - ↑ back to [The Three Heads of the Well](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/49/)