--- title: The next morning the prince bade his attendants bring his future bri… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The next morning the prince bade his attendants bring his future bride to his own apartments, and when she came he gave her silk which she was to weave into three robes—one red, one green, and one blue—and these must all be ready before the wedding. Who acts: prince, attendants, bride, these. 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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, attendants, bride, these), 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:pg2435:23:69 # text = The next morning the prince bade his attendants bring his future bride to his own apartments, and when she came he gave her silk which she was to weave into three robes—one red, one green, and one blue—and these must all be ready before the wedding. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 bade bade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 attendants attendant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 future future ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 apartments apartment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 obj _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 weave weave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 robes robe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 — - PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 43 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 — - PUNCT : _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 46 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 50 nsubj _ _ 47 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 48 all all ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 49 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 50 cop _ _ 50 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 51 before before ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bade** | past | the prince | | | | morning | | tree rules | | 2 | **bring** | present | Prince's attendants | | Prince's future bride | | | to Prince's own apartments | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bride=Destination | | 3 | **come** | past | bride | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **give** | past | Prince | bride's silk | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | bride | | | three robes | | weave *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | must | these | | | | before the wedding | all, ready *property* | tree rules | 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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/23/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/23/70/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/23/)