--- title: The Prince replied: ‘I had to look after a mare and foal, and they h… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Prince replied: ‘I had to look after a mare and foal, and they have run away from me and have hidden themselves in the river; if you wish to save my life drive them back to the land.’ Who acts: Prince, I, mare, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/88/) [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 Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/) / 88 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 88 The Prince replied: ‘I had to look after a mare and foal, and they have run away from me and have hidden themselves in the river; if you wish to save my life drive them back to the land.’ **Who acts:** Prince, I, mare, you · **What happens:** reply, have, look, run away, hide, wish · **To what, where:** mare, river, life, land This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, I, mare, you), 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:pg640:31:88 # text = The Prince replied: ‘I had to look after a mare and foal, and they have run away from me and have hidden themselves in the river; if you wish to save my life drive them back to the land.’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 5 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 after after ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 mare mare NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 foal foal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 run run VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 20 away away ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 26 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 25 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 back back ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Prince | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | past | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | after a mare and foal | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **run away** | present · perfect | mare | | | | | from me; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from i=Trajectory | | 5 | **hide** | present · perfect | mare *not said here* | mare | | the river | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in river=Location | | 6 | **wish** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **save** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | my life | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **drive back** | infinitive | you *not said here* | mare | | the land | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to land=Trajectory | 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 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/89/) - ↑ back to [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/)