--- title: The Princess went poking about and searching everywhere, high and lo… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Princess went poking about and searching everywhere, high and low, and wanted to go into Dapplegrim’s stall too, but he began to bite and kick about so that she was afraid to go there, and could not find the youth. Who acts: Princess, Dapplegrim. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/39/41/) [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 Three Dwarfs, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/39/) / 41 # The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 41 The Princess went poking about and searching everywhere, high and low, and wanted to go into Dapplegrim’s stall too, but he began to bite and kick about so that she was afraid to go there, and could not find the youth. **Who acts:** Princess, Dapplegrim · **What happens:** go, poke about, search, want, begin, bite · **To what, where:** stall, youth This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Dapplegrim), 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:pg540:39:41 # text = The Princess went poking about and searching everywhere, high and low, and wanted to go into Dapplegrim’s stall too, but he began to bite and kick about so that she was afraid to go there, and could not find the youth. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 poking poke VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 searching search VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ _ 8 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 Dapplegrim Dapplegrim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ’s 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 stall stall NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 too too ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 kick kick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 31 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 36 mark _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 advcl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 44 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the Princess | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **poke about** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | about *property* | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **search** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | everywhere, high *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **want** | past | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | Dapplegrim's stall | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into stall=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **begin** | past | Dapplegrim | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **bite** | to-infinitive | Dapplegrim *not said here* | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **kick about** | infinitive | Dapplegrim *not said here* | | | | | about *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **is** | past | Princess | | | | | afraid *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **go** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | | | there | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **not** **find** | could | | the youth | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Topic | 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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/39/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/39/42/) - ↑ back to [The Three Dwarfs, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/39/)