--- title: One fell ill, one went quite crazy, and a few of the luckiest set of… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: One fell ill, one went quite crazy, and a few of the luckiest set off to see her as soon as possible, but these poor princes became her slaves the moment they set eyes on her. Who acts: One, poor princes, queen, princes. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/5/9/) [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 Yellow Dwarf, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/5/) / 9 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 9 One fell ill, one went quite crazy, and a few of the luckiest set off to see her as soon as possible, but these poor princes became her slaves the moment they set eyes on her. **Who acts:** One, poor princes, queen, princes · **What happens:** fall, go, set off, see, become, slave · **To what, where:** queen, eyes This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, poor princes, queen, princes), 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:pg503:5:9 # text = One fell ill, one went quite crazy, and a few of the luckiest set off to see her as soon as possible, but these poor princes became her slaves the moment they set eyes on her. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nsubj _ _ 6 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 quite quite ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 crazy crazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 luckiest lucky ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 nmod _ _ 16 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 off off ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 as as ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 29 det _ _ 28 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 31 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 slaves slave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past | One | | | | | ill *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past | one | | | | | crazy *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **set off** | participle | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | | queen | | | | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 5 | **become** | past | this poor princes | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **slave** | present | queen | | | | moment | | tree rules | | 7 | **set** | past | princes *= prince* | eyes | | | | on queen | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on she=Destination | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/5/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/5/10/) - ↑ back to [The Yellow Dwarf, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/5/)