--- title: Now Michael knew quite well what had happened to all the princes, bu… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now Michael knew quite well what had happened to all the princes, but notwithstanding, the beautiful eyes of the Princess Lina inspired him with a violent longing to try his fate. Who acts: Michael, beautiful eyes. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/37/) [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 Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Twelve Dancing Princesses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/) / 37 # The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 37 Now Michael knew quite well what had happened to all the princes, but notwithstanding, the beautiful eyes of the Princess Lina inspired him with a violent longing to try his fate. **Who acts:** Michael, beautiful eyes · **What happens:** know, happen, notwithstand, inspire, try, fate · **To what, where:** Michael, fate · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael, beautiful eyes), 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:pg540:2:37 # text = Now Michael knew quite well what had happened to all the princes, but notwithstanding, the beautiful eyes of the Princess Lina inspired him with a violent longing to try his fate. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 Michael Michael PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 quite quite ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 nsubj _ _ 7 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 12 det:predet _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 15 notwithstanding notwithstand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Lina Lina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 inspired inspire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 violent violent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 longing longing NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | past | Michael | | | | now | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **happen** | past · perfect | | | | | | to all princes | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **notwithstand** | gerund | the beautiful eyes of the Princess Lina *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **inspire** | past | the beautiful eyes of the Princess Lina | Michael | | | | with a violent longing | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | | 5 | **try** | to-infinitive | the beautiful eyes of the Princess Lina *not said here* | Michael's fate | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Eventuality | | 6 | **fate** | | Michael | | | | | | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/38/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Dancing Princesses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/)