--- title: Then he sent some tritons to bind chains about the Prince of the Gol… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he sent some tritons to bind chains about the Prince of the Golden Isle, and he too felt himself borne to the depths of the ocean, and without the hope of ever again seeing the Princess. Who acts: Prince, hope. 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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, hope), 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:pg640:17:21 # text = Then he sent some tritons to bind chains about the Prince of the Golden Isle, and he too felt himself borne to the depths of the ocean, and without the hope of ever again seeing the Princess. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 5 det _ _ 5 tritons triton NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 bind bind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 8 chains chain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 Isle Isle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 too too ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obj _ _ 22 borne bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 xcomp _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 depths depth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 without without ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hope hope NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 34 of of SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 36 advmod _ _ 36 again again ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | Prince | some tritons | | | then | without the hope | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent triton=Theme | | 2 | **bind** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | chains | | | | about the Prince of the Golden Isle | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Patient | | 3 | **feel** | past | Prince | Prince | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **bear** | participle | Prince *not said here* | | | | | to the depths of the ocean | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **see** | gerund | the hope *not said here* | the Princess | | | again | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | 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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/22/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/)