--- title: Now she saw that she could not in any way change his resolve, she to… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now she saw that she could not in any way change his resolve, she told her nurse to bring a certain casket which contained, she said, something exhilarating which would help the prince on his journey. Who acts: fire, certain casket, prince. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Br --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/3/31/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/3/) / 31 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 31 Now she saw that she could not in any way change his resolve, she told her nurse to bring a certain casket which contained, she said, something exhilarating which would help the prince on his journey. **Who acts:** fire, certain casket, prince · **What happens:** see, not change, tell, bring, contain, say · **To what, where:** resolve, way, nurse, certain casket, something, prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (fire, certain casket, prince), 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:pg3282:3:31 # text = Now she saw that she could not in any way change his resolve, she told her nurse to bring a certain casket which contained, she said, something exhilarating which would help the prince on his journey. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 6 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 11 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 resolve resolve NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 nurse nurse NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 iobj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 casket casket NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 contained contain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 28 obj _ _ 31 exhilarating exhilarate VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 33 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | fire | | | | now | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **change** | could | fire | prince's resolve | | any way | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resolve=Patient | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | fire | | fire's nurse | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent nurse=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | fire *not said here* | a certain casket | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent casket=Theme | | 5 | **contain** | past | a certain casket | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | fire | something | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 7 | **exhilarate** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **help** | would | | | the prince | prince's journey | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Beneficiary | | 9 | **journey** | | prince | | | | | | nom journey «act 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 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/3/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/3/32/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/3/)