--- title: His joy at seeing the Princess again was extreme, and he set to work… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: His joy at seeing the Princess again was extreme, and he set to work with all his might to try to break her prison; but in spite of all his efforts he failed utterly. Who acts: joy, Prince. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/3/99/) [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/) / [Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Pr…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/3/) / 99 # The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 99 His joy at seeing the Princess again was extreme, and he set to work with all his might to try to break her prison; but in spite of all his efforts he failed utterly. **Who acts:** joy, Prince · **What happens:** see, be, set, work, try, break · **To what, where:** Princess, prison, spite, efforts This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, Prince), 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:pg503:3:99 # text = His joy at seeing the Princess again was extreme, and he set to work with all his might to try to break her prison; but in spite of all his efforts he failed utterly. 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 at at SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 4 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 extreme extreme ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 with with SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 19 det:predet _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 spite spite NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 33 det:predet _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 efforts effort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 36 utterly utterly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | gerund | Prince's joy *not said here* | the Princess | | | again | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | past | Prince's joy | | | | | extreme *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **set** | past | Prince | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **work** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **try** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **break** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | princess's prison | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prison=Patient | | 7 | **fail** | past | Prince | | | spite of Prince's efforts | | utterly *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in spite=Eventuality | | 8 | **joy** | | Prince | | | | | | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **spite** | | | Prince's efforts | | | | | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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 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 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/3/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/3/100/) - ↑ back to [Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/3/)