--- title: The girl’s words so inspired the Prince with confidence that he told… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The girl’s words so inspired the Prince with confidence that he told her all his tale of woe, and ended up by asking her advice as to how he was to escape the punishment the Fairy would be sure to inflict on him when she discovered that he had not cut down the trees in the wood and that he had broke --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/63/) [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 Glass Mountain(16), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/) / 63 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 63 The girl’s words so inspired the Prince with confidence that he told her all his tale of woe, and ended up by asking her advice as to how he was to escape the punishment the Fairy would be sure to inflict on him when she discovered that he had not cut down the trees in the wood and that he had broken her axe. **Who acts:** words, Prince, girl, woe · **What happens:** inspire, tell, end up, ask, be, inflict · **To what, where:** Prince, tale, girl, advice, wood, axe · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (words, Prince, girl, woe), 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:pg640:25:63 # text = The girl’s words so inspired the Prince with confidence that he told her all his tale of woe, and ended up by asking her advice as to how he was to escape the punishment the Fairy would be sure to inflict on him when she discovered that he had not cut down the trees in the wood and that he had broken her axe. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’s 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 inspired inspire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 confidence confidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 17 det:predet _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 woe woe NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 by by SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 advcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 39 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 cop _ _ 41 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 parataxis _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 inflict inflict VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 advcl _ _ 44 on on ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ _ 46 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 48 advmod _ _ 47 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 discovered discover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 parataxis _ _ 49 that that SCONJ IN _ 53 mark _ _ 50 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj:pass _ _ 51 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ _ 52 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 53 advmod _ _ 53 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 ccomp _ _ 54 down down ADP RP _ 53 compound:prt _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 obj _ _ 57 in in ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 61 that that SCONJ IN _ 64 mark _ _ 62 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 64 nsubj _ _ 63 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 64 aux _ _ 64 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 53 conj _ _ 65 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 66 nmod:poss _ _ 66 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 67 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **inspire** | past | the girl's words | the Prince | | | | with confidence | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus prince=Experiencer | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Prince | Prince's tale of woe | girl | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient tale=Topic | | 3 | **end up** | past | the girl's words *not said here* | | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | the girl's words *not said here* | girl's advice | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | past | Prince | | | | | escape *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | would | | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **inflict** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | | | | | on Prince | tree rules | | 8 | **discover** | past | girl | | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **not** **cut down** | past · perfect · passive | | Prince | | the wood | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary tree=Product | | 10 | **break** | past · perfect | Prince | girl's axe | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer axe=Patient | | 11 | **word** | | the girl | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 12 | **tell** | | woe | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/64/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/)