--- title: Prince Darling was very sorry, for he loved his father with all his… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Prince Darling was very sorry, for he loved his father with all his heart, and he would willingly have given all his kingdoms and all his treasures of gold and silver if they could have kept the good King with him. Who acts: Prince Darling, Darling. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/25/) [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/) / 25 # The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 25 Prince Darling was very sorry, for he loved his father with all his heart, and he would willingly have given all his kingdoms and all his treasures of gold and silver if they could have kept the good King with him. **Who acts:** Prince Darling, Darling · **What happens:** be, love, give, keep, treasure · **To what, where:** father, Darling, kingdoms, gold 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 (Prince Darling, 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:pg503:39:25 # text = Prince Darling was very sorry, for he loved his father with all his heart, and he would willingly have given all his kingdoms and all his treasures of gold and silver if they could have kept the good King with him. 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Darling Darling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 for for SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 15 det:predet _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 20 willingly willingly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux _ _ 22 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 23 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 25 det:predet _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 kingdoms kingdom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 29 det:predet _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 treasures treasure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 if if SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 aux _ _ 38 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 advcl _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Prince Darling | | | | | sorry *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **love** | past | Darling | Darling's father | | | | with Darling's heart | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | | 3 | **give** | would · perfect · passive | | Darling | | | | willingly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient kingdom=Theme | | 4 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | could · perfect · passive | | kingdoms *= kingdom* | | | | with king | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme king=Attribute | | 5 | **treasure** | | Darling | gold and silver | | | | | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/26/) - ↑ back to [Prince Darling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/)