--- title: One day, as the Prince was walking up and down the great gallery, th… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: One day, as the Prince was walking up and down the great gallery, thinking how miserable it was to be so ugly, and to be forced to marry an equally frightful Princess, he looked up suddenly and noticed that the painted windows were particularly bright and beautiful, and for the sake of doing somethi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/32/) [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 Golden Branch, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/) / 32 # The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 32 One day, as the Prince was walking up and down the great gallery, thinking how miserable it was to be so ugly, and to be forced to marry an equally frightful Princess, he looked up suddenly and noticed that the painted windows were particularly bright and beautiful, and for the sake of doing something that would change his sad thoughts he began to examine them attentively. **Who acts:** One day, prince, painted windows, sake · **What happens:** walk up, think, be, force, marry, look up · **To what, where:** frightful Princess, something, sad thoughts, thoughts · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (One day, prince, painted windows, sake), 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:pg540:34:32 # text = One day, as the Prince was walking up and down the great gallery, thinking how miserable it was to be so ugly, and to be forced to marry an equally frightful Princess, he looked up suddenly and noticed that the painted windows were particularly bright and beautiful, and for the sake of doing something that would change his sad thoughts he began to examine them attentively. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 up up ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 down down ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 gallery gallery NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 17 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 18 miserable miserable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 advcl _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 equally equally ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 frightful frightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 43 that that SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 painted paint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 46 amod _ _ 46 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nsubj _ _ 47 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 48 particularly particularly ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 ccomp _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 54 for for ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 57 of of SCONJ IN _ 58 mark _ _ 58 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 56 acl _ _ 59 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 58 obj _ _ 60 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 62 nsubj _ _ 61 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 62 aux _ _ 62 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 59 acl:relcl _ _ 63 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 65 nmod:poss _ _ 64 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 65 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 62 obj _ _ 66 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 67 nsubj _ _ 67 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 65 acl:relcl _ _ 68 to to PART TO _ 69 mark _ _ 69 examine examine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 67 xcomp _ _ 70 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 69 obj _ _ 71 attentively attentively ADV RB _ 69 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 72 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk up** | past · progressive | One day as the Prince | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | One day as the Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | | | | | | ugly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **force** | to-infinitive · passive | One day as the Prince *not said here* | | | | | for the sake | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: clause=Topic | | 5 | **marry** | to-infinitive | One day as the Prince *not said here* | a frightful Princess | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | | 6 | **look up** | past | prince | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **notice** | past | prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **paint** | participle | | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is** | past | the painted windows | | | | | bright, particularly *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **be** | | the painted windows *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **do** | gerund | the sake *not said here* | something | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 12 | **change** | would | | prince's sad thoughts | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | | 13 | **begin** | past | prince | prince's sad thoughts *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 14 | **examine** | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* | thoughts *= thought* | | | | attentively *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 15 | **think** | | prince | | | | | | nom thought «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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/33/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Branch, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/)