--- title: ‘What is the use,’ replied the other, ‘of being Prince of the Gnomes… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘What is the use,’ replied the other, ‘of being Prince of the Gnomes, and having a mother who is queen over all the four elements, if I cannot win the love of the Princess Argentine? Who acts: use, mother, I. 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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 (use, mother, I), 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:pg640:16:74 # text = ‘What is the use,’ replied the other, ‘of being Prince of the Gnomes, and having a mother who is queen over all the four elements, if I cannot win the love of the Princess Argentine? 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 cop _ _ 15 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Gnomes Gnome PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 27 over over ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 31 det:predet _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 elements element NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 if if SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 Argentine Argentine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | the use | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the use | the other | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent other=Topic | | 3 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | of Prince; of the Gnomes | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | gerund | the use *not said here* | a mother and queen | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient | | 5 | **is a** | present | a mother and queen | queen | | all four elements | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **win** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | I | the love of the Princess Argentine | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality | | 7 | **love** | | | the Princess Argentine | | | | | nom love «feeling 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 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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/75/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/)