--- title: The young Prince was all on fire at these words, believing, without… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: The young Prince was all on fire at these words, believing, without a moment's doubt, that he could put an end to this rare adventure; and pushed on by love and honour resolved that moment to look into it. Who acts: young Prince, fire, moment. 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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 (young Prince, fire, moment), 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:pg29021:9:11 # text = The young Prince was all on fire at these words, believing, without a moment's doubt, that he could put an end to this rare adventure; and pushed on by love and honour resolved that moment to look into it. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 all all ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 10 det _ _ 10 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 believing believe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 without without ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 doubt doubt NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 det _ _ 28 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 adventure adventure NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 33 on on ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 resolved resolve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 39 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 det _ _ 40 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 43 into into ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the young Prince | | | fire | | at this words; all *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **believe** | gerund | the young Prince *not said here* | | | | | without a moment's doubt | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **put** | could | fire | a end | | | | to this rare adventure | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal | | 4 | **push on** | participle | | | | | | by love and honour | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent by love=Trajectory | | 5 | **resolve** | past | fire | | | | moment | | tree rules | | 6 | **look** | to-infinitive | fire *not said here* | | | | | into honour | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into it=Theme | | 7 | **doubt** | | a moment | | | | | | nom doubt «cognition 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:** «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/9/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/9/12/) - ↑ back to [\_thomas Bodkin\_, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/9/)