--- title: So the Prince of the Golden Isle found, when bound in chains by the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So the Prince of the Golden Isle found, when bound in chains by the tritons, he was carried through the homes of strange monsters and past immense seaweed forests, till he reached a vast sandy space, surrounded by huge rocks. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/23/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/) / 23 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 23 So the Prince of the Golden Isle found, when bound in chains by the tritons, he was carried through the homes of strange monsters and past immense seaweed forests, till he reached a vast sandy space, surrounded by huge rocks. **Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** find, bind, carry, reach, surround · **To what, where:** chains, Prince, homes, vast sandy space · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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:pg640:17:23 # text = So the Prince of the Golden Isle found, when bound in chains by the tritons, he was carried through the homes of strange monsters and past immense seaweed forests, till he reached a vast sandy space, surrounded by huge rocks. 1 So so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Golden Golden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Isle Isle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 11 bound bind VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 ccomp _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 chains chain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 tritons triton NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 parataxis _ _ 21 through through ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 monsters monster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 past past ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 29 immense immense ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 seaweed seaweed NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 till till SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 vast vast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 sandy sandy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 acl _ _ 42 by by ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | the Prince of the Golden Isle | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **bind** | participle | | | | chains | | by the tritons | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **carry** | past · passive | | Prince | | the homes of strange monsters and past immense seaweed forests | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **reach** | past | Prince | a vast sandy space | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent space=Theme | | 5 | **surround** | participle | | a vast sandy space *not said here* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/24/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/)