--- title: At last he remembered the conversation of the two Princes about the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At last he remembered the conversation of the two Princes about the cabinets of the years, and that if he could manage to reach the oak tree, he would be certain to discover what had become of Rosalie. Who acts: spite, two Princes. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful B --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/85/) [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 Grateful Beasts(11), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/) / 85 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 85 At last he remembered the conversation of the two Princes about the cabinets of the years, and that if he could manage to reach the oak tree, he would be certain to discover what had become of Rosalie. **Who acts:** spite, two Princes · **What happens:** remember, manage, reach, be, discover, become · **To what, where:** conversation, last, oak tree This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spite, two Princes), 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:pg640:16:85 # text = At last he remembered the conversation of the two Princes about the cabinets of the years, and that if he could manage to reach the oak tree, he would be certain to discover what had become of Rosalie. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 remembered remember VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 conversation conversation NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 Princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 11 about about ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 cabinets cabinet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 manage manage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 33 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 discover discover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 csubj _ _ 36 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 38 nsubj _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 ccomp _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Rosalie Rosalie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remember** | past | spite | the conversation of the two Princes about the cabinets of the years | | last | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent conversation=Theme | | 2 | **manage** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | spite | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive | spite *not said here* | the oak tree | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | | 4 | **is** | would | spite | | | | | certain *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **discover** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **become** | past · perfect | | | | | | of Rosalie | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **converse** | | the two Princes about the cabinets of the years | | | | | | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: of=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 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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/86/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/)