--- title: If he only guessed rightly the third time, he would marry the prince… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: If he only guessed rightly the third time, he would marry the princess, and reign over the kingdom after the death of the old king: but if he failed, he would lose his life, and the magician would have his beautiful blue eyes. Who acts: John, magician, old king. 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C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, magician, old king), 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:pg27200:198:29 # text = If he only guessed rightly the third time, he would marry the princess, and reign over the kingdom after the death of the old king: but if he failed, he would lose his life, and the magician would have his beautiful blue eyes. 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 guessed guess VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 5 rightly rightly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 amod _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 reign reign NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 18 over over ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 after after ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 : : PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 30 if if SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 46 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 47 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guess** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | John | | | | time | rightly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **marry** | would | John | the princess | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | | 3 | **fail** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | John | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **lose** | would | John | John's life | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality | | 5 | **have** | would | the magician | John's beautiful blue eyes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 6 | **die** | | the old king | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/198/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/198/30/) - ↑ back to [The Travelling Companion, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/198/)