--- title: The Prince lifted her on to his horse, and soon they reached the hut… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Prince lifted her on to his horse, and soon they reached the hut, where the old woman got down, and turning to the Prince said, ‘Just wait a moment, and I will give you something.’ Who acts: Prince, eggs, old woman, turning. 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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, eggs, old woman, turning), 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:pg640:34:12 # text = The Prince lifted her on to his horse, and soon they reached the hut, where the old woman got down, and turning to the Prince said, ‘Just wait a moment, and I will give you something.’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 on on ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 21 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl _ _ 22 down down ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 csubj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 Just just ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 iobj _ _ 42 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift on** | past | the Prince | woman | Prince's horse | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to horse=Destination | | 2 | **reach** | past | eggs *= egg* | the hut | | | | soon *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hut=Theme | | 3 | **get down** | past | the old woman | | | | | down *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **turn** | gerund | | | | | | to the Prince *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to prince=Result | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | turning | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **wait** | infinitive | | | | | moment | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **give** | future | I | something | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Theme | 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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/34/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/34/13/) - ↑ back to [The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/34/)