--- title: The Prince helped the Princess to rise; she was entirely dressed, an… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Prince helped the Princess to rise; she was entirely dressed, and very magnificently, but his royal highness took care not to tell her that she was dressed like his great-grandmother, and had a point band peeping over a high collar; she looked not a bit less charming and beautiful for all that. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/70/) [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/) / 70 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 70 The Prince helped the Princess to rise; she was entirely dressed, and very magnificently, but his royal highness took care not to tell her that she was dressed like his great-grandmother, and had a point band peeping over a high collar; she looked not a bit less charming and beautiful for all that. **Who acts:** Prince, royal highness, point band, Princess · **What happens:** help, rise, dress, take, not tell, have · **To what, where:** Princess, care, point band, bit · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Prince, royal highness, point band, Princess), 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:pg503:10:70 # text = The Prince helped the Princess to rise; she was entirely dressed, and very magnificently, but his royal highness took care not to tell her that she was dressed like his great-grandmother, and had a point band peeping over a high collar; she looked not a bit less charming and beautiful for all that. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 11 entirely entirely ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 very very ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 magnificently magnificently ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 highness highness NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 27 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ _ 32 like like ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 34 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 band band NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 peeping peep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 42 acl _ _ 44 over over ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 collar collar NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ; ; PUNCT : _ 50 punct _ _ 49 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 50 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 51 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 50 advmod _ _ 52 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl:unmarked _ _ 54 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 55 advmod _ _ 55 charming charming NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 57 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 conj _ _ 58 for for ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 57 conj _ _ 60 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 59 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | past | the Prince | | the Princess | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Beneficiary | | 2 | **rise** | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **dress** | past · passive | | Princess | | | | entirely, magnificently *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **take** | past | Prince's royal highness | care | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 5 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Prince's royal highness *not said here* | | Princess | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 6 | **dress** | past · passive | | Princess | | | | like Prince's great grandmother | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **have** | past | the Prince *not said here* | a point band | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Patient | | 8 | **peep** | gerund | a point band *not said here* | | | | | over a high collar | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over collar=Theme | | 9 | **not** **look** | past | Princess | a bit charming | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/71/) - ↑ back to [The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/)