--- title: The poor young Prince says, "No, I am not hungry; but I was very fri… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The poor young Prince says, "No, I am not hungry; but I was very frightened when I saw you coming to me first, as I had no place to run away from you." Who acts: poor young Prince, you. 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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 (poor young Prince, you), 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:pg14241:27:78 # text = The poor young Prince says, "No, I am not hungry; but I was very frightened when I saw you coming to me first, as I had no place to run away from you." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 13 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 very very ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 frightened frightened ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 32 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 33 det _ _ 33 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl _ _ 36 away away ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the poor young Prince | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | the poor young Prince *= prince* | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the poor young Prince *= prince* | | | | | frightened *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **see** *in a quote* | past | the poor young Prince *= prince* | you | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **come** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | | the poor young Prince *= prince* | | | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | past | the poor young Prince *= prince* | no place | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | | 7 | **run away** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the poor young Prince *= prince* *not said here* | no place *not said here* | | | | from you; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from you=Trajectory | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/27/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/27/79/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/27/)