--- title: The prince stood and watched him for a little, till the bald-headed… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The prince stood and watched him for a little, till the bald-headed man looked up and said to him: “Dear brother, what surprises you so much?” Who acts: prince, headed man, Dear brother. 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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 (prince, headed man, Dear brother), 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:pg2435:18:97 # text = The prince stood and watched him for a little, till the bald-headed man looked up and said to him: “Dear brother, what surprises you so much?” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 watched watch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 till till SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 13 bald bald ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 headed headed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 “ " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 29 nsubj _ _ 29 surprises surprise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 much much ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | the prince | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **watch** | past | the prince *not said here* | Prince | | | | for a little | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Location for little=Theme | | 3 | **look up** | past | the headed man | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the prince *not said here* | Dear brother | man | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 5 | **surprise** *in a quote* | present | Dear brother | man | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | 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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/18/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/18/98/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/18/)