--- title: “I gave myself up for lost, but presently a voice said: ‘Ungrateful… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “I gave myself up for lost, but presently a voice said: ‘Ungrateful Prince, even this fire is hardly enough to warm your cold heart!’ Who acts: Wonderful Sheep, voice, fire. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/17/) [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 Wonderful Sheep, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/) / 17 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 17 “I gave myself up for lost, but presently a voice said: ‘Ungrateful Prince, even this fire is hardly enough to warm your cold heart!’ **Who acts:** Wonderful Sheep, voice, fire · **What happens:** give up, lose, say, be, warm · **To what, where:** Wonderful Sheep, cold heart · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wonderful Sheep, voice, fire), 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:pg503:31:17 # text = “I gave myself up for lost, but presently a voice said: ‘Ungrateful Prince, even this fire is hardly enough to warm your cold heart!’ 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 iobj _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 for for SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 presently presently ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Ungrateful Ungrateful PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 even even ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 warm warm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give up** *in a quote* | past | the Wonderful Sheep *= sheep* | | the Wonderful Sheep *= sheep* | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Source | | 2 | **lose** *in a quote* | participle | the Wonderful Sheep *= sheep* *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | a voice | | | | | presently *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this fire | | | | | enough, hardly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **warm** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | this fire *not said here* | your cold heart | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/18/) - ↑ back to [The Wonderful Sheep, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/)