--- title: The Prince took the hint, and lifting aside the picture without diff… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Prince took the hint, and lifting aside the picture without difficulty, found himself in a marble hall adorned with statues; from this he passed on through numbers of splendid rooms, until at last he reached one all hung with blue gauze. Who acts: Prince. 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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), 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:pg540:34:65 # text = The Prince took the hint, and lifting aside the picture without difficulty, found himself in a marble hall adorned with statues; from this he passed on through numbers of splendid rooms, until at last he reached one all hung with blue gauze. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 hint hint NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 lifting lift VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 9 aside aside ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 without without ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 difficulty difficulty NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 marble marble NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 adorned adorn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 statues statue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 obl _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 29 on on ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 through through ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 until until SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 last last NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 41 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 obj _ _ 42 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 41 fixed _ _ 43 hung hang VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 acl _ _ 44 with with ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 gauze gauze NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the Prince | the hint | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hint=Theme | | 2 | **lift** | gerund | the Prince *not said here* | the picture | | | | without difficulty; aside *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme | | 3 | **find** | past | the Prince *not said here* | prince | | a marble hall | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | | 4 | **adorn** | participle | | a marble hall *not said here* | | | | with statues | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with statue=Theme | | 5 | **pass on** | past | prince | | | this | | through numbers of splendid rooms | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from this=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **reach** | past | prince | one | | last | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent one=Theme at last=Asset | | 7 | **hang** | participle | | | | | | with blue gauze | vn assuming\_position-50 «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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/66/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Branch, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/)