--- title: After spending the greater part of his early youth in pleasure, he m… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: After spending the greater part of his early youth in pleasure, he met a Princess of such remarkable beauty that he at once asked her hand in marriage, and, having obtained it, considered himself the happiest of men. Who acts: power. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/19/86/) [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/) / [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/19/) / 86 # The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 86 After spending the greater part of his early youth in pleasure, he met a Princess of such remarkable beauty that he at once asked her hand in marriage, and, having obtained it, considered himself the happiest of men. **Who acts:** power · **What happens:** spend, meet, ask, obtain, consider · **To what, where:** greater part, Princess, such remarkable beauty, marriage, part, power This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power), 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:pg640:19:86 # text = After spending the greater part of his early youth in pleasure, he met a Princess of such remarkable beauty that he at once asked her hand in marriage, and, having obtained it, considered himself the happiest of men. 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 spending spend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 remarkable remarkable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 obj _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 25 obl _ _ 25 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 aux _ _ 34 obtained obtain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 considered consider VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 38 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 37 obj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 happiest happy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 37 xcomp _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | gerund | power *not said here* | the greater part of power's early youth in pleasure | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Asset | | 2 | **meet** | past | power | a Princess of such remarkable beauty | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Co-Agent | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | power | such remarkable beauty | | marriage | | | tree rules | | 4 | **obtain** | gerund · perfect | power *not said here* | part | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Theme | | 5 | **consider** | past | power *not said here* | power | | | | happy *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute | 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 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/19/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/19/87/) - ↑ back to [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/19/)