--- title: Not being able to imagine what could be the cause of so much obstina… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Not being able to imagine what could be the cause of so much obstinacy the King began to fear, lest, in spite of all his precautions, she might have heard of the charms of the Prince his son, whose goodness, youth and beauty, made him adored at Court. Who acts: King, Princess, cause. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Princess, cause), 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:pg640:20:22 # text = Not being able to imagine what could be the cause of so much obstinacy the King began to fear, lest, in spite of all his precautions, she might have heard of the charms of the Prince his son, whose goodness, youth and beauty, made him adored at Court. 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 2 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 cop _ _ 3 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 imagine imagine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 nsubj _ _ 7 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 obstinacy obstinacy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 fear fear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 lest lest SCONJ IN _ 24 case _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 spite spite NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 28 det:predet _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 precautions precaution NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux _ _ 33 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 acl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 charms charm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 goodness goodness NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 51 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ _ 52 adored adore VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 xcomp _ _ 53 at at ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 Court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | gerund | | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **imagine** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **is a** | could | | the cause | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **begin** | past | the King | | | | | of much obstinacy | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **fear** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | | | | | lest spite of King's precautions | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **hear** | might · perfect | Princess | King's precautions *not said here* | | | | of the charms of the Prince King's son and youth and beauty | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer precaution=Stimulus | | 7 | **make** | past | the cause *not said here* | King | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **adore** | participle | King *not said here* | | | Court | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **spite** | | | King's precautions | | | | | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/23/) - ↑ back to [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/)