--- title: Young Prince Souci had a handsome face, and at the bottom a good dea… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Young Prince Souci had a handsome face, and at the bottom a good deal of common sense; but he had never been taught good manners, and was shy and awkward; and had, besides, never learned how to use his brains. Who acts: Young 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 (Young 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:pg5615:29:110 # text = Young Prince Souci had a handsome face, and at the bottom a good deal of common sense; but he had never been taught good manners, and was shy and awkward; and had, besides, never learned how to use his brains. 1 Young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Souci Souci PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 taught teach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 parataxis _ _ 26 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 manners manners NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 parataxis _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 awkward awkward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 besides besides INTJ UH _ 36 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 42 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 44 advmod _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Young Prince | a handsome face | | the bottom | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | | 2 | **not** **teach** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive | | prince | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient manners=Topic | | 3 | **is** | past | | | | | | shy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | past | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **learn** | past | | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **use** | to-infinitive | | prince's brains | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient | | 8 | **deal** | | | common sense | | | | | nom deal «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 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 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/29/109/) - next →: [sentence 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/29/111/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/29/)