--- title: ‘Do you think,’ the Prince Gnome was saying, ‘do you think that I wo… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Do you think,’ the Prince Gnome was saying, ‘do you think that I would not break my chains if I could? Who acts: you, Prince Gnome, I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/75/) [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/) / 75 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 75 ‘Do you think,’ the Prince Gnome was saying, ‘do you think that I would not break my chains if I could? **Who acts:** you, Prince Gnome, I · **What happens:** think, ', say, not break · **To what, where:** chains · **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 (you, Prince Gnome, 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:pg640:17:75 # text = ‘Do you think,’ the Prince Gnome was saying, ‘do you think that I would not break my chains if I could? 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’ ' VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Gnome Gnome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 chains chain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **'** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · progressive | the Prince Gnome | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **not** **break** | would | I | my chains | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chain=Patient | 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/76/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/)