--- title: Then he remembered what the Princess had told him--that he had only… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he remembered what the Princess had told him--that he had only to touch them with the rod she had given him and they would all awake; and the first he touched were his own comrades. Who acts: lad, Princess, first. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains, with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/45/89/) [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 Blue Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/45/) / 89 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 89 Then he remembered what the Princess had told him--that he had only to touch them with the rod she had given him and they would all awake; and the first he touched were his own comrades. **Who acts:** lad, Princess, first · **What happens:** remember, tell, have, touch, give, be · **To what, where:** lad, comrades, own comrades · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, Princess, first), 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:pg640:45:89 # text = Then he remembered what the Princess had told him--that he had only to touch them with the rod she had given him and they would all awake; and the first he touched were his own comrades. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 remembered remember VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 obj _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 -- -- PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 parataxis _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 iobj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 all all ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 35 nsubj _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 36 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 comrades comrade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remember** | past | lad | | | | then | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | the Princess | | lad | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic | | 3 | **have** | past | lad | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **touch** | to-infinitive | lad *not said here* | comrades *= comrade* | | | | with the rod | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Experiencer with rod=Instrument | | 5 | **give** | past · perfect | Princess | | lad | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **touch** | past | the first | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | past | | lad's own comrades | | | | | tree rules | 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 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/45/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/45/90/) - ↑ back to [The Blue Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/45/)