--- title: The Prince promised joyfully all she asked; then having once more wa… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Prince promised joyfully all she asked; then having once more warned him not to betray her confidence, she handed him a draught to drink which very soon sunk his senses in a deep slumber. Who acts: Prince, mother. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/66/) [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/) / 66 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 66 The Prince promised joyfully all she asked; then having once more warned him not to betray her confidence, she handed him a draught to drink which very soon sunk his senses in a deep slumber. **Who acts:** Prince, mother · **What happens:** promise, ask, have, warn, not betray, hand · **To what, where:** all, Prince, confidence, draught, senses, deep slumber · **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 (Prince, mother), 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:pg640:25:66 # text = The Prince promised joyfully all she asked; then having once more warned him not to betray her confidence, she handed him a draught to drink which very soon sunk his senses in a deep slumber. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 joyfully joyfully ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 obj _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 10 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 11 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 10 advmod _ _ 12 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 13 warned warn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 betray betray VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 confidence confidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 handed hand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 draught draught NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 obj _ _ 29 very very ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 31 sunk sink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 senses sens NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 slumber slumber NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the Prince | all | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent all=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | mother | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | gerund | | | | | then | once *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | | | Prince | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **betray** | to-infinitive | | mother's confidence | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **hand** | past | mother | a draught | Prince | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination draught=Theme | | 7 | **drink** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **sink** | past | mother *not said here* | Prince's senses | | a deep slumber | | soon *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **confide** | | mother | | | | | | nom confidence «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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/67/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/)