--- title: “Truly,” said the prince, “I have seen things which I have not under… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Truly,” said the prince, “I have seen things which I have not understood; what do they mean, and what is the story of them? Who acts: prince, pearls. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/5/33/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/5/) / 33 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 33 “Truly,” said the prince, “I have seen things which I have not understood; what do they mean, and what is the story of them? **Who acts:** prince, pearls · **What happens:** say, see, not understand, mean, be · **To what, where:** seen things, story · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, pearls), 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:pg3282:5:33 # text = “Truly,” said the prince, “I have seen things which I have not understood; what do they mean, and what is the story of them? 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Truly truly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 understood understand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 23 obj _ _ 21 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 29 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the prince | | | | | truly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the prince *= prince* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **not** **understand** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | seen things | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | | 4 | **mean** *in a quote* | present · do-support | pearls *= pearl* | seen things | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | the story | | | | of pearls *= pearl* | 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:** «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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/5/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/5/34/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/5/)