--- title: Then it dawned on the Prince that he had been speaking to a good fai… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then it dawned on the Prince that he had been speaking to a good fairy, and putting the little bell carefully in his pocket, he rode home and told his father that he meant to set the daughter of the Flower Queen free, and intended setting out on the following day into the wide world in search of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/34/22/) [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 Flower Queen’s Daughter(23)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/34/) / 22 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 22 Then it dawned on the Prince that he had been speaking to a good fairy, and putting the little bell carefully in his pocket, he rode home and told his father that he meant to set the daughter of the Flower Queen free, and intended setting out on the following day into the wide world in search of the maid. **Who acts:** earth, Prince · **What happens:** dawn, speak, put, ride, tell, mean · **To what, where:** little bell, pocket, father, daughter, wide world, maid · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, Prince), 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:pg640:34:22 # text = Then it dawned on the Prince that he had been speaking to a good fairy, and putting the little bell carefully in his pocket, he rode home and told his father that he meant to set the daughter of the Flower Queen free, and intended setting out on the following day into the wide world in search of the maid. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 dawned dawn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 aux _ _ 11 speaking speak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 29 home home ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 iobj _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 Flower Flower PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 45 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 intended intend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 49 setting set VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 48 xcomp _ _ 50 out out ADP RP _ 49 compound:prt _ _ 51 on on ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 53 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 54 amod _ _ 54 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 55 into into ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 57 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 58 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 59 in in ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 60 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 61 of of ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 64 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dawn** | past | earth | | | | then | on the Prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on prince=Location | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect · progressive | Prince | | | | | to a good fairy | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to fairy=Co-Agent | | 3 | **put** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | the little bell | | Prince's pocket | | carefully *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bell=Theme in pocket=Destination | | 4 | **ride** | past | Prince | | | | | home *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Prince *not said here* | | Prince's father | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | | 6 | **mean** | past | Prince | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **set** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | the daughter of the Flower Queen | | | | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient daughter=Result | | 8 | **intend** | past | earth *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **set out** *not said to happen* | gerund | earth *not said here* | | | the wide world | day | in search of the maid | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial\_Location | | 10 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **search** | | | the maid | | | | | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/34/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/34/23/) - ↑ back to [The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/34/)