--- title: They turned out to be the Prince Gnome and his friend, and the sudde… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They turned out to be the Prince Gnome and his friend, and the sudden desire to get some news of his sister, Princess Argentine, caused the Invisible Prince to follow them and to listen to their conversation. Who acts: people, sudden desire, Invisible Prince. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/74/) [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/) / 74 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 74 They turned out to be the Prince Gnome and his friend, and the sudden desire to get some news of his sister, Princess Argentine, caused the Invisible Prince to follow them and to listen to their conversation. **Who acts:** people, sudden desire, Invisible Prince · **What happens:** turn out, be, get, cause, follow, listen · **To what, where:** Prince Gnome, news, Invisible Prince, people 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 (people, sudden desire, Invisible 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:pg640:17:74 # text = They turned out to be the Prince Gnome and his friend, and the sudden desire to get some news of his sister, Princess Argentine, caused the Invisible Prince to follow them and to listen to their conversation. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Gnome Gnome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 20 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Argentine Argentine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 28 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 Invisible Invisible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 conversation conversation NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn out** | past | people | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | the Prince Gnome and Prince's friend | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | the sudden desire *not said here* | some news of Prince's sister | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | | 4 | **cause** | past | the sudden desire | the Invisible Prince | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **follow** | to-infinitive | the Invisible Prince *not said here* | people | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **listen** | to-infinitive | the Invisible Prince *not said here* | | | | | to people's conversation | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to conversation=Theme | | 7 | **converse** | | people | | | | | | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/75/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/)