--- title: The poor little dog, who didn’t understand this at all, pulled at hi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The poor little dog, who didn’t understand this at all, pulled at his coat to make him at least look at her, and this made Prince Darling so cross that he gave her quite a hard kick. Who acts: poor little dog, Darling, this. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling, with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/36/) [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/) / 36 # The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 36 The poor little dog, who didn’t understand this at all, pulled at his coat to make him at least look at her, and this made Prince Darling so cross that he gave her quite a hard kick. **Who acts:** poor little dog, Darling, this · **What happens:** not understand, pull, make, look, cross, give · **To what, where:** this, all, poor little dog, coat, Darling, Prince Darling 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 (poor little dog, Darling, this), 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:pg503:39:36 # text = The poor little dog, who didn’t understand this at all, pulled at his coat to make him at least look at her, and this made Prince Darling so cross that he gave her quite a hard kick. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 7 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 8 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 10 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 obj _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 obl _ _ 23 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 nsubj _ _ 29 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 30 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 Darling Darling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ _ 37 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 iobj _ _ 38 quite quite DET PDT PronType=Ind 41 det:predet _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 kick kick NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **understand** | past · do-support | the poor little dog | this | | all | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | | 2 | **pull** | participle · passive | | the poor little dog | | Darling's coat | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at coat=Asset | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | | Darling | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **look** | infinitive | Darling *not said here* | | | | | at Bibi; at least | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at least=Theme | | 5 | **make** | past | this | Prince Darling | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset darling=Product | | 6 | **cross** | infinitive | this *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **give** | past | Darling | quite hard kick | Bibi | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient kick=Theme | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/37/) - ↑ back to [Prince Darling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/)