--- title: Prince,” cried she, “do you think I jest with you? — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Prince,” cried she, “do you think I jest with you? Who acts: Prince, you, I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/35/) [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 Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fair…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/) / 35 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 35 Prince,” cried she, “do you think I jest with you? **Who acts:** Prince, you, I · **What happens:** cry, think, jest · **To what, where:** Nourgiham · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, you, I), 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:pg503:52:35 # text = Prince,” cried she, “do you think I jest with you? 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ” " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 4 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 jest jest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Prince | Nourgiham | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **jest** *speech: other* | present | I | | | | | with you | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/36/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/)