--- title: Left to himself the Prince soon forgot the wise counsels of his moth… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Left to himself the Prince soon forgot the wise counsels of his mother, and feeling very much bored with his own company, he ordered some of the spirits of the air to carry him to the court of a neighbouring sovereign. Who acts: Prince, man. 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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 (Prince, man), 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:pg640:16:9 # text = Left to himself the Prince soon forgot the wise counsels of his mother, and feeling very much bored with his own company, he ordered some of the spirits of the air to carry him to the court of a neighbouring sovereign. 1 Left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 1 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 7 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 counsels counsel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 16 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 17 very very ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 much much ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 bored bored ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 26 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 spirits spirit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 neighbouring neighbour VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 43 amod _ _ 43 sovereign sovereign NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | participle | the Prince *not said here* | | man | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **forget** | past | the Prince | the wise counsels of man's mother | | | | soon *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **feel** | gerund | man *not said here* | | | | | bored *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **order** | past | man | some | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | | 5 | **carry** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | man | | the court of a neighbouring sovereign | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to court=Destination | | 6 | **neighbour** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/10/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/)