--- title: I am Prince Percinet, of whose riches you may have heard, and whose… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: I am Prince Percinet, of whose riches you may have heard, and whose fairy gift will, I hope, be of use to you in all your difficulties, if you will permit me to accompany you under this disguise.’ Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/23/66/) [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/) / [Graciosa and Percinet, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/23/) / 66 # The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 66 I am Prince Percinet, of whose riches you may have heard, and whose fairy gift will, I hope, be of use to you in all your difficulties, if you will permit me to accompany you under this disguise.’ **Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** be, hear, hope, permit, accompany · **To what, where:** Percinet, me, you, disguise This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, 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 (I, you), 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:pg540:23:66 # text = I am Prince Percinet, of whose riches you may have heard, and whose fairy gift will, I hope, be of use to you in all your difficulties, if you will permit me to accompany you under this disguise.’ 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:desc _ _ 4 Percinet Percinet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 riches rich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux _ _ 12 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 hope hope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 31 det:predet _ _ 30 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 difficulties difficulty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 permit permit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 accompany accompany VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 under under ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 det _ _ 43 disguise disguise NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | I | Percinet | | | | Prince *nmod:desc* | tree rules | | 2 | **hear** | may · perfect | you | | | | | of riches | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of rich=Stimulus | | 3 | **hope** | present | I | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **be** *not said to happen* | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | of use to you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **permit** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | me | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **accompany** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | you | | this disguise | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme under disguise=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 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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/23/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/23/67/) - ↑ back to [Graciosa and Percinet, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/23/)