--- title: ‘You swear,’ said the Prince, ‘that you will love me till you die, b… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘You swear,’ said the Prince, ‘that you will love me till you die, but I fear your faithless heart, and I feel that I shall soon have to seek the Fairy Despair, ruler of half this island. Who acts: You, Prince, 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 (You, Prince, 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:pg640:17:11 # text = ‘You swear,’ said the Prince, ‘that you will love me till you die, but I fear your faithless heart, and I feel that I shall soon have to seek the Fairy Despair, ruler of half this island. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 swear swear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 till till SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 fear fear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 faithless faithless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 34 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 Fairy fairy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 Despair despair NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 ruler ruler NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 appos _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 45 det:predet _ _ 44 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 45 det _ _ 45 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swear** | present | You | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Prince | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **love** | future | you | me | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 4 | **die** | present | you | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **fear** | present | I | your faithless heart | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Stimulus | | 6 | **feel** | present | I | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **have** | shall | I | | | | | soon *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **seek** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the Fairy Despair | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent despair=Theme | 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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/12/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/)