---
title: They served as pages to the king, and handmaids and ladies of honour… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: They served as pages to the king, and handmaids and ladies of honour to the queen, and were instructed in all manner of accomplishments befitting their gentle blood. Who acts: Goths, handmaids, accomplishments. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of Count Julian., 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/5/14/)

<!-- 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/) / [Legends of the conquest of Spain](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/) / [Of Count Julian.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/5/) / 14

# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of Count Julian., sentence 14

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They served as pages to the king, and handmaids and ladies of honour to the queen, and were instructed in all manner of accomplishments befitting their gentle blood.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Goths, handmaids, accomplishments · **What happens:** serve, lady, instruct, befit · **To what, where:** manner, gentle blood

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of Count Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goths, handmaids, accomplishments), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77685:5:14
# text = They served as pages to the king, and handmaids and ladies of honour to the queen, and were instructed in all manner of accomplishments befitting their gentle blood.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	handmaids	handmaid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	accomplishments	accomplishment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	befitting	befit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | past | Goths *= goth* |  |  |  |  | as pages; to the king | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as page=Attribute |
| 2 | **lady** |  | handmaids |  |  |  |  | of honour to the queen | tree rules |
| 3 | **instruct** *speech: other* | past · passive | Goths *= goth* *not said here* |  |  | all manner of accomplishments |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic» |
| 4 | **befit** | gerund | accomplishments *not said here* | Goths's gentle blood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .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:** «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/5/13/)
- next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/5/15/)
- ↑ back to [Of Count Julian.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/5/)