--- title: The monarch had the Chief of Police brought to him at once and was g… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics description: The monarch had the Chief of Police brought to him at once and was given the forged letter. Who acts: monarch, Chief. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/3/93/) [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/) / [Winning Buddha's smile](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/) / [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/3/) / 93 # Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 93 The monarch had the Chief of Police brought to him at once and was given the forged letter. **Who acts:** monarch, Chief · **What happens:** have, bring, give, forge · **To what, where:** King, forged letter This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monarch, Chief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78208:3:93 # text = The monarch had the Chief of Police brought to him at once and was given the forged letter. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 monarch monarch NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Police Police PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 8 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 forged forge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the monarch | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bring** | past | the Chief of Police | | King | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination | | 3 | **give** | past · passive | the Chief of Police *not said here* | the forged letter | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: letter=Theme | | 4 | **forge** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:** «Winning Buddha's smile», Project Gutenberg book 78208 (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 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/3/92/) - next →: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/3/94/) - ↑ back to [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/3/)