--- title: Prince Darling recognized the voice of the Fairy Truth and turned in… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Prince Darling recognized the voice of the Fairy Truth and turned in a fury to catch her and eat her up if he possibly could; but he saw no one, and the same voice went on: Who acts: Prince, same voice. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/96/) [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/) / 96 # The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 96 Prince Darling recognized the voice of the Fairy Truth and turned in a fury to catch her and eat her up if he possibly could; but he saw no one, and the same voice went on: **Who acts:** Prince, same voice · **What happens:** recognize, turn, catch, eat up, see, go on · **To what, where:** voice, fury, one 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, same voice), 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:pg503:39:96 # text = Prince Darling recognized the voice of the Fairy Truth and turned in a fury to catch her and eat her up if he possibly could; but he saw no one, and the same voice went on: 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Darling Darling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 recognized recognize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Truth Truth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 fury fury NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 17 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 possibly possibly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 31 det _ _ 31 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 38 on on ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **recognize** | past | Prince | the voice of the Fairy Truth | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | | 2 | **turn** | past | Prince *not said here* | | | a fury | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in fury=Trajectory | | 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | voice | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 4 | **eat up** | infinitive | Prince *not said here* | voice | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 5 | **see** | past | prince | no one | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | | 6 | **go on** | past | the same voice | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/97/) - ↑ back to [Prince Darling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/)