--- title: In the meantime the Prince was kept safely locked up in his tower, a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In the meantime the Prince was kept safely locked up in his tower, and, that he might be as dull as possible, King Grumpy ordered that no one should speak to him, and that they should give him next to nothing to eat. Who acts: Prince, Grumpy, one, ambassadors. 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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, Grumpy, one, ambassadors), 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:pg540:34:30 # text = In the meantime the Prince was kept safely locked up in his tower, and, that he might be as dull as possible, King Grumpy ordered that no one should speak to him, and that they should give him next to nothing to eat. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 meantime meantime NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 safely safely ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 locked lock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 xcomp _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 19 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 cop _ _ 21 as as ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 advcl _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 26 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:desc _ _ 27 Grumpy Grumpy PROPN NNP _ 28 nsubj _ _ 28 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 31 det _ _ 31 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 iobj _ _ 43 next next ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 41 obj _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past · passive | | the Prince | | the meantime | | safely *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **lock up** | participle | the Prince *not said here* | | | prince's tower | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is** | might | prince | | | | | dull *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **order** | past | Grumpy King | | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | should | no one | | King | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | | 6 | **give** | should | ambassadors *= ambassador* | nothing | King | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nothing=Theme | | 7 | **eat** | to-infinitive | ambassadors *= ambassador* *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/31/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Branch, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/)