--- title: Meanwhile the Invisible Prince was turning over in his mind how he c… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Meanwhile the Invisible Prince was turning over in his mind how he could best deliver Rosalie. Who acts: Invisible Prince, Prince. 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/pg640/17/85/) [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/) / 85 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 85 Meanwhile the Invisible Prince was turning over in his mind how he could best deliver Rosalie. **Who acts:** Invisible Prince, Prince · **What happens:** turn over, deliver, mind · **To what, where:** mind, Rosalie 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 (Invisible Prince, 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:pg640:17:85 # text = Meanwhile the Invisible Prince was turning over in his mind how he could best deliver Rosalie. 1 Meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Invisible Invisible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 over over ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 15 advmod _ _ 15 deliver deliver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 16 Rosalie Rosalie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn over** | past · progressive | the Invisible Prince | | | Prince's mind | | meanwhile, over *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **deliver** | could | Prince | Rosalie | | | | well *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rosalie=Patient | | 3 | **mind** | | Prince | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/86/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/)