--- title: In the morning the prince called his chief wazir and ordered him to… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In the morning the prince called his chief wazir and ordered him to shut up in the chest in which the princess had been found a great monkey that lived chained up in the palace, and to take the chest back to the river and set it afloat once more and watch what became of it. 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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 (prince, great monkey), 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:pg3454:5:6 # text = In the morning the prince called his chief wazir and ordered him to shut up in the chest in which the princess had been found a great monkey that lived chained up in the palace, and to take the chest back to the river and set it afloat once more and watch what became of it. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 chief chief ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 wazir wazir NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 shut shut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 obl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl:relcl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 chained chain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 xcomp _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 back back ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 48 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ _ 49 afloat afloat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 xcomp _ _ 50 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 51 advmod _ _ 51 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 47 advmod _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 54 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 55 nsubj _ _ 55 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 53 ccomp _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | the prince | prince's chief wazir | | | morning | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wazir=Recipient | | 2 | **order** | past | the prince *not said here* | | prince | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **shut up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* | | | the chest | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **find** | past · perfect · passive | | the princess | | the chest | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme monkey=Attribute | | 5 | **live** | past | a great monkey | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **chain up** | participle | a great monkey *not said here* | | | the palace | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **take** | to-infinitive | | the chest | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Theme | | 8 | **set** | past | | chest | | | | afloat *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result | | 9 | **watch** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **become** | past | | | | | | of palace | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/5/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/5/7/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/5/)