--- title: Then the prince thanked his little friend with the scarlet cloak for… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the prince thanked his little friend with the scarlet cloak for his friendly aid, and took the wand and the bread, and went travelling on and on, over sea and over land, till he came to his journey’s end, and found everything to be as the dwarf had told him. Who acts: prince. 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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), 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:pg2591:49:31 # text = Then the prince thanked his little friend with the scarlet cloak for his friendly aid, and took the wand and the bread, and went travelling on and on, over sea and over land, till he came to his journey’s end, and found everything to be as the dwarf had told him. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 thanked thank VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 scarlet scarlet NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 cloak cloak NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 aid aid NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 wand wand NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 27 travelling travel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 xcomp _ _ 28 on on ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 on on ADV RB _ 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 over over ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 over over ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 till till SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’s 's PART POS _ 43 case _ _ 45 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 49 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 48 obj _ _ 50 to to PART TO _ 56 mark _ _ 51 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 56 aux:pass _ _ 52 as as SCONJ IN _ 56 mark _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 dwarf dwarf NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nsubj:pass _ _ 55 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 56 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 ccomp _ _ 57 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the prince | | prince's little friend | | then | with the scarlet cloak for prince's friendly aid | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | | 2 | **take** | past | | the wand and the bread | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Theme | | 3 | **go** | past | | | | sea | | over land | tree rules | | 4 | **travel on** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **come** | past | prince | | | | to prince's journey's end | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **find** | past | | everything | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent everything=Attribute clause=Theme | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | | the dwarf | prince | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic | | 8 | **journey** | | prince | | | | | | nom journey «act 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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/49/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/49/32/) - ↑ back to [The Water of Life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/49/)