---
title: ‘Ah, Princess!’ said the Queen, ‘don’t keep this poor Percinet in su… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Ah, Princess!’ said the Queen, ‘don’t keep this poor Percinet in suspense any longer. Who acts: Princess, Queen. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/25/58/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/25/) / 58

# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 58

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
‘Ah, Princess!’ said the Queen, ‘don’t keep this poor Percinet in suspense any longer.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Princess, Queen · **What happens:** say, not keep · **To what, where:** poor Percinet, suspense · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg540:25:58
# text = ‘Ah, Princess!’ said the Queen, ‘don’t keep this poor Percinet in suspense any longer.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
16	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Percinet	Percinet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	suspense	suspense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	any	any	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **keep** | infinitive · do-support | the Queen | poor Percinet |  | suspense |  | long *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent percinet=Theme in suspense=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/25/57/)
- next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/25/59/)
- ↑ back to [Graciosa and Percinet, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/25/)