--- title: The princess made no reply, but smiled sweetly, and slipping a golde… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The princess made no reply, but smiled sweetly, and slipping a golden ring from her finger she broke it in two and held half out silently to the prince, while the other half she put in her own pocket. Who acts: princess, other half. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fair --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/77/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/) / 77 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 77 The princess made no reply, but smiled sweetly, and slipping a golden ring from her finger she broke it in two and held half out silently to the prince, while the other half she put in her own pocket. **Who acts:** princess, other half · **What happens:** make, smile, slip, break, hold out, put · **To what, where:** reply, golden ring, ring, two, half, own pocket This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, other half), 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:pg3282:18:77 # text = The princess made no reply, but smiled sweetly, and slipping a golden ring from her finger she broke it in two and held half out silently to the prince, while the other half she put in her own pocket. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 reply reply NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 smiled smile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 9 sweetly sweetly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 12 slipping slip VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 csubj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 26 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 25 obj _ _ 27 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 28 silently silently ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 while while SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 38 nsubj _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | the princess | no reply | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Product | | 2 | **smile** | past | | | | | | sweetly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **slip** | gerund | | a golden ring | | | | from princess's finger | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ring=Patient from finger=Co-Patient | | 4 | **break** | past | princess | ring | | two | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | | 5 | **hold out** | past | princess *not said here* | half | | | | to the prince | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme | | 6 | **put** | past | the other half | | | princess's own pocket | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pocket=Destination | 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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/78/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/)