--- title: As soon as the head-gardener saw the Prince going towards the palace… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as the head-gardener saw the Prince going towards the palace he ran to the trees, and when he saw them laden with ripe fruit he hastened to tell the King the joyful news. Who acts: Prince, trees. 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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 (Prince, trees), 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:pg640:30:47 # text = As soon as the head-gardener saw the Prince going towards the palace he ran to the trees, and when he saw them laden with ripe fruit he hastened to tell the King the joyful news. 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 8 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 12 towards towards ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 laden lade VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 xcomp _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 ripe ripe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 hastened hasten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 joyful joyful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | | the Prince | | | | as the head gardener; soon *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | gerund | the Prince *not said here* | | | the palace | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards palace=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **run** | past | Prince | the palace *not said here* | | the trees | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent palace=Theme to tree=Trajectory | | 4 | **see** | past | Prince | trees *= tree* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **lade** | participle | trees *= tree* *not said here* | | | | | with ripe fruit | tree rules | | 6 | **hasten** | past | Prince | ripe fruit *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | the joyful news | the King | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient news=Topic | 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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/48/) - ↑ back to [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/)