--- title: Prince Percinet joyfully took the hand that was given him, and, for… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Prince Percinet joyfully took the hand that was given him, and, for fear the Princess should change her mind, the wedding was held at once with the greatest splendour, and Graciosa and Percinet lived happily ever after. Who acts: Prince, fear, Graciosa, Princess. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, fear, Graciosa, Princess), 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:pg540:25:63 # text = Prince Percinet joyfully took the hand that was given him, and, for fear the Princess should change her mind, the wedding was held at once with the greatest splendour, and Graciosa and Percinet lived happily ever after. 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 Percinet Percinet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 joyfully joyfully ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 26 obl _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 32 amod _ _ 32 splendour splendour NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 Graciosa Graciosa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 Percinet Percinet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 happily happily ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 41 advmod _ _ 41 after after ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Prince | the hand | | | | joyfully *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 2 | **give** | past · passive | | the hand | Prince | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme | | 3 | **change** | should | fear and the Princess | Princess's mind | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 4 | **hold** | past · passive | | the wedding | | | | with the greatest splendour | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at once=Location | | 5 | **live** | past | Graciosa and Percinet | | | | | after, happily *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **mind** | | Princess | | | | | | nom mind «cognition 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/25/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/25/64/) - ↑ back to [Graciosa and Percinet, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/25/)