--- title: The young Prince Ratibor, whose lands joined her father’s, had won t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The young Prince Ratibor, whose lands joined her father’s, had won the heart of the princess; and the lovers had been looking forward to the coming of their wedding-day when the bride’s mysterious disappearance took place. Who acts: lands, young Ratibor, lovers, mysterious disappearance. 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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 (lands, young Ratibor, lovers, mysterious disappearance), 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:pg3282:31:86 # text = The young Prince Ratibor, whose lands joined her father’s, had won the heart of the princess; and the lovers had been looking forward to the coming of their wedding-day when the bride’s mysterious disappearance took place. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:desc _ _ 4 Ratibor Ratibor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 joined join VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ’s 's PART POS _ 10 case _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 won win VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 lovers lover NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 aux _ _ 26 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 27 forward forward ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 to to SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 33 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 36 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 42 advmod _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’s 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 mysterious mysterious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 disappearance disappearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 43 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **join** | past | lands | land's father | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient | | 2 | **win** | past · perfect | the young Ratibor Prince | the heart of the princess | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | | 3 | **look** | past · perfect · progressive | the lovers | | | | | forward *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **come** | gerund | the lovers *not said here* | | | | day | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **take** | past | the bride's mysterious disappearance | place | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 6 | **disappear** | | the bride | | | | | | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: 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 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/31/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/31/87/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/31/)