--- title: But from that time forth, King Picus was no longer proud of his crow… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But from that time forth, King Picus was no longer proud of his crown and his trappings of royalty, nor of the fact of his being a king; he felt himself merely the upper servant of his people, and that it must be his life-long labor to make them better and happier. Who acts: King, crown. 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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 (King, crown), 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:pg976:19:8 # text = But from that time forth, King Picus was no longer proud of his crown and his trappings of royalty, nor of the fact of his being a king; he felt himself merely the upper servant of his people, and that it must be his life-long labor to make them better and happier. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 5 forth forth ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 8 Picus Picus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 no no ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 12 advmod _ _ 12 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 trappings trapping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 royalty royalty NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 25 cc _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 28 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 34 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 33 obj _ _ 35 merely merely ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 upper upper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 44 that that SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 46 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 47 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 52 cop _ _ 48 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 49 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 50 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 labor labor NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 53 to to PART TO _ 54 mark _ _ 54 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 52 acl _ _ 55 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 obj _ _ 56 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 54 xcomp _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 happier happy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 56 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | King | | | | time | of king's crown and king's trappings of royalty; long, proud *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | of king's king | tree rules | | 3 | **feel** | past | king | king | | | | the upper servant of king's people *obl* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | must | crown | king's long labor | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | people | | | | good *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 6 | **crown** | | king | | | | | | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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:** «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/19/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/19/9/) - ↑ back to [Circe's Palace., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/19/)