--- title: The Prince was beside himself with grief, and in his despair he jump… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Prince was beside himself with grief, and in his despair he jumped right down from the tower, and, though he escaped with his life, the thorns among which he fell pierced his eyes out. 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:pg540:41:155 # text = The Prince was beside himself with grief, and in his despair he jumped right down from the tower, and, though he escaped with his life, the thorns among which he fell pierced his eyes out. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 beside beside ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 despair despair NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 right right ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 down down ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 though though SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 escaped escape VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 thorns thorn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 32 among among ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 obl _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 36 pierced pierce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 amod _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 39 out out ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the Prince | | | | | with grief and the thorns | tree rules | | 2 | **jump** | past | Prince | | | Prince's despair | | from the tower; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in despair=Trajectory from tower=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **escape** | past | Prince | | | | | with Prince's life | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fall** | past | Prince | Prince's pierced eyes | | | | among the thorns; out *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result | | 5 | **pierce** | participle | | | | | | | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **despair** | | Prince | | | | | | nom despair «state intransitive»: 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 154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/154/) - next →: [sentence 156](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/156/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/)