--- title: ‘Alas! mother,’ answered the Prince, ‘I have lost my sweet shepherde… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Alas! mother,’ answered the Prince, ‘I have lost my sweet shepherdess, but I am determined to find her again, though I should have to traverse the whole world in search of her.’ Who acts: mother, I. 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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 (mother, I), 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:pg540:36:19 # text = ‘Alas! mother,’ answered the Prince, ‘I have lost my sweet shepherdess, but I am determined to find her again, though I should have to traverse the whole world in search of her.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Alas alas INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 answered answer 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 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 parataxis _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 shepherdess shepherdess NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 determined determined ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 again again ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 though though SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 traverse traverse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | mother | | the Prince | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality | | 2 | **lose** | present · perfect | I | my sweet shepherdess | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherdess=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | present | I | | | | | determined *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | mother | | | again | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | | 5 | **have** | should | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **traverse** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the whole world | | search of mother | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme world=Co-Theme | | 7 | **search** | | | mother | | | | | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/36/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/36/20/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Branch, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/36/)