--- title: "Nay, but," said the prince, "the princess has not yet come out upon… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Nay, but," said the prince, "the princess has not yet come out upon the balcony to drink tea with the serpents, and see me kiss the pig before it goes out, as is her wont." Who acts: prince, princess, tea. 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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, princess, tea), 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:pg29672:27:87 # text = "Nay, but," said the prince, "the princess has not yet come out upon the balcony to drink tea with the serpents, and see me kiss the pig before it goes out, as is her wont." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Nay nay INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 14 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 yet yet ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 18 out out ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 upon upon ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 balcony balcony NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 24 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 serpents serpent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 kiss kiss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 before before SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 38 out out ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 as as ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 wont wont NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the prince | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **come out** *in a quote* | present | the princess | | | | yet | upon the balcony; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **drink** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the princess *not said here* | tea | | | | with the serpents | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient | | 4 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | the prince *not said here* | the prince *= prince* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **kiss** *in a quote* | infinitive | the prince *= prince* *not said here* | the pig | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Co-Agent | | 6 | **go out** *in a quote* | present | tea | | | | | | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | as princess's wont | 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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/88/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/)