--- title: Prince Darling, delighted by the change, frisked about the keeper, s… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Prince Darling, delighted by the change, frisked about the keeper, showing his joy in every way he could, and the man, taking him up in his arms, carried him to the King, to whom he told the whole story. Who acts: change, Darling. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling, w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/123/) [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 Darling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/) / 123 # The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 123 Prince Darling, delighted by the change, frisked about the keeper, showing his joy in every way he could, and the man, taking him up in his arms, carried him to the King, to whom he told the whole story. **Who acts:** change, Darling · **What happens:** delight, frisk, show, take up, carry, tell · **To what, where:** Prince Darling, change, joy, Darling, arms, King · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (change, Darling), 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:pg503:39:123 # text = Prince Darling, delighted by the change, frisked about the keeper, showing his joy in every way he could, and the man, taking him up in his arms, carried him to the King, to whom he told the whole story. 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Darling Darling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 delighted delight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 frisked frisk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 10 about about ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 keeper keeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 34 advcl _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **delight** | participle · passive | the change | Prince Darling | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | | 2 | **frisk** | participle | | the change *not said here* | | | | about the keeper | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **show** | gerund | the change *not said here* | Darling's joy | | | | in every way | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent joy=Patient in way=Topic | | 4 | **take up** | gerund | the change *not said here* | Darling | | Darling's arms | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in arm=Location | | 5 | **carry** | past | | Darling | the King | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to king=Destination | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Darling | the whole story | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 7 | **joy** | | Darling | | | | | | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/122/) - next →: [sentence 124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/124/) - ↑ back to [Prince Darling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/)