--- title: The king sorrowed bitterly over this, because the youngest prince wa… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The king sorrowed bitterly over this, because the youngest prince was his dearest son, and the joy over the treasures soon died away, for the bird Grip would not sing so that the king might recover his sight, the princess wept night and day, and no one dared to venture so close to the horse as to ha --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/15/58/) [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 Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / [The Pink Fairy Book, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/15/) / 58 # The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 58 The king sorrowed bitterly over this, because the youngest prince was his dearest son, and the joy over the treasures soon died away, for the bird Grip would not sing so that the king might recover his sight, the princess wept night and day, and no one dared to venture so close to the horse as to have a look at his golden shoes. **Who acts:** king, youngest prince, joy, bird Grip, princess, one · **What happens:** sorrow, be, die away, not sing, recover, weep · **To what, where:** this, dearest son, sight, look, golden shoes This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, youngest prince, joy, bird Grip), 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:pg5615:15:58 # text = The king sorrowed bitterly over this, because the youngest prince was his dearest son, and the joy over the treasures soon died away, for the bird Grip would not sing so that the king might recover his sight, the princess wept night and day, and no one dared to venture so close to the horse as to have a look at his golden shoes. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sorrowed sorrow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 bitterly bitterly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 over over ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 dearest dear ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 15 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 20 over over ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 treasures treasure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 24 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 away away ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 for for SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Grip grip NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 34 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 39 mark _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 fixed _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 recover recover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 46 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl:unmarked _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 51 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 52 det _ _ 52 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 53 dared dare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 54 to to PART TO _ 55 mark _ _ 55 venture venture VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 53 xcomp _ _ 56 so so ADV RB _ 57 advmod _ _ 57 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 xcomp _ _ 58 to to ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ _ 61 as as SCONJ IN _ 63 mark _ _ 62 to to PART TO _ 63 mark _ _ 63 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 55 advcl _ _ 64 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obj _ _ 66 at at ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 67 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 69 nmod:poss _ _ 68 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 amod _ _ 69 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 65 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sorrow** | past | the king | | | this | | bitterly *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | past | the youngest prince | king's dearest son | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **die away** | past | the joy over the treasures | | | | | away, soon *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **not** **sing** *speech: express* | would | the bird Grip | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **recover** | might | the king | king's sight | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | | 6 | **weep** | past | the princess | king's sight *not said here* | | | night | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | | 7 | **dare** | past | no one | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **venture** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | | | | | close *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **have** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | a look | | king's golden shoes | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient | | 10 | **sight** | | king | | | | | | nom sight «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/15/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/15/59/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/15/)