--- title: Prince Saphir, who loved his father very dearly, was so unhappy at t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Prince Saphir, who loved his father very dearly, was so unhappy at this that he persuaded himself that he might succeed where the others had failed, and at once prepared himself for a more distant search. Who acts: Saphir, bird, others. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donke --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/11/49/) [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 Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Donkey Cabbage, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/11/) / 49 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 49 Prince Saphir, who loved his father very dearly, was so unhappy at this that he persuaded himself that he might succeed where the others had failed, and at once prepared himself for a more distant search. **Who acts:** Saphir, bird, others · **What happens:** love, be, persuade, succeed, fail, prepare · **To what, where:** father, this, bird This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saphir, bird, others), 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:pg640:11:49 # text = Prince Saphir, who loved his father very dearly, was so unhappy at this that he persuaded himself that he might succeed where the others had failed, and at once prepared himself for a more distant search. 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Saphir Saphir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 dearly dearly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 obl _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 persuaded persuade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 19 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 18 obj _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 succeed succeed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 24 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 28 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 failed fail VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 33 obl _ _ 33 prepared prepare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 34 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 33 obj _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 38 advmod _ _ 38 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** | past | Saphir Prince | bird's father | | | | dearly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | past | Saphir Prince | | | this | | unhappy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **persuade** | past | bird | bird | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | | 4 | **succeed** | might | bird | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fail** | past · perfect | the others | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **prepare** | past | | bird | | | | for a distant search | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent himself=Product for search=Beneficiary | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/11/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/11/50/) - ↑ back to [The Donkey Cabbage, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/11/)