--- title: When the king saw how very young the prince looked, and that he was… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the king saw how very young the prince looked, and that he was still drinking of the fountain of wonder, he said: “O youth! leave aside this fancy which my daughter has conceived in the pride of her beauty. Who acts: king, prince, youth, daughter. 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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 (king, prince, youth, daughter), 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:pg3282:1:100 # text = When the king saw how very young the prince looked, and that he was still drinking of the fountain of wonder, he said: “O youth! leave aside this fancy which my daughter has conceived in the pride of her beauty. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 5 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 still still ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 drinking drink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 fountain fountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 wonder wonder NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 26 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 27 “ " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 O o INTJ UH _ 29 discourse _ _ 29 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ! ! PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ 31 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 32 aside aside ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 det _ _ 34 fancy fancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 obj _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 conceived conceive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 acl:relcl _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | the king | | | | | young *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **look** | past | the prince | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **drink** | past · progressive | Prince | | | | still | of the fountain of wonder | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of fountain=Source | | 4 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Prince | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive | youth | this fancy | | | | aside *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme | | 6 | **conceive** *in a quote* | present · perfect | my daughter | this fancy | | the pride of daughter's beauty | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 7 | **pride** *in a quote* | | | daughter's beauty | | | | | nom pride «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/1/99/) - next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/1/101/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/1/)