--- title: The young Prince was all on fire at these words, believing, without… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The young Prince was all on fire at these words, believing, without weighing the matter, that he could put an end to this rare adventure; and, pushed on by love and honor, resolved that moment to look into it. Who acts: young Prince, grandfather. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, T --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/52/) [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 Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/) / 52 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 52 The young Prince was all on fire at these words, believing, without weighing the matter, that he could put an end to this rare adventure; and, pushed on by love and honor, resolved that moment to look into it. **Who acts:** young Prince, grandfather · **What happens:** be, believe, weigh, put, push on, resolve · **To what, where:** fire, matter, end This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Prince, grandfather), 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:pg503:10:52 # text = The young Prince was all on fire at these words, believing, without weighing the matter, that he could put an end to this rare adventure; and, pushed on by love and honor, resolved that moment to look into it. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 all all ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 10 det _ _ 10 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 believing believe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 without without SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 weighing weigh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 27 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 adventure adventure NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 33 on on ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 honor honor NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 resolved resolve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 40 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 41 det _ _ 41 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 advcl _ _ 44 into into ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the young Prince | | | fire | | at this words; all *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **believe** | gerund | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **weigh** | gerund | | the matter | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme matter=Value | | 4 | **put** | could | grandfather | a end | | | | to this rare adventure | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal | | 5 | **push on** | participle | | | | | | by love and honor | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent by love=Trajectory | | 6 | **resolve** | past | | | | | moment | | tree rules | | 7 | **look** | to-infinitive | | | | | | into adventure | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into it=Theme | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/53/) - ↑ back to [The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/)