--- title: Then the beautiful girl said to him, ‘If you succeed in bringing the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the beautiful girl said to him, ‘If you succeed in bringing the mare back safely the third day, ask the Mother Dragon to give you a foal of the mare as a reward.’ Who acts: beautiful girl, you. 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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 (beautiful girl, 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:pg640:34:65 # text = Then the beautiful girl said to him, ‘If you succeed in bringing the mare back safely the third day, ask the Mother Dragon to give you a foal of the mare as a reward.’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 If if SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 succeed succeed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 13 in in SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 bringing bring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 mare mare NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 back back ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 18 safely safely ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 21 amod _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 Dragon Dragon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 foal foal NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 mare mare NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 reward reward NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the beautiful girl | | Prince | | then | | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 2 | **succeed** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bring back** | gerund | you *not said here* | | the mare | | day | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mare=Destination | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | the Mother | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a foal of the mare | you | | | as a reward | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient foal=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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/34/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/34/66/) - ↑ back to [The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/34/)