--- title: The prince started at this, and said, ‘Let me live, and I will chang… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The prince started at this, and said, ‘Let me live, and I will change dresses with you; you shall take my royal coat to show to my father, and do you give me your shabby one.’ Who acts: prince, me, I, 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 (prince, me, I, 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:pg2591:49:65 # text = The prince started at this, and said, ‘Let me live, and I will change dresses with you; you shall take my royal coat to show to my father, and do you give me your shabby one.’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 12 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 19 dresses dress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 39 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 iobj _ _ 40 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 shabby shabby ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | past | the prince | | | this | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | me | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **live** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **change** | future | I | dresses | | | | with you | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent dress=Theme with you=Co-Agent | | 6 | **take** | shall | you | my royal coat | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme | | 7 | **show** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | my father | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient | | 8 | **give** | present · do-support | you | your shabby one | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient one=Theme | 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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/49/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/49/66/) - ↑ back to [The Water of Life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/49/)