--- title: In the night the dog came again, took the Princess on his back and r… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In the night the dog came again, took the Princess on his back and ran away with her to the Soldier, who was very much in love with her, and would have liked to have been a Prince, so that he might have had her for his wife. Who acts: dog, Soldier. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/119/) [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 Tinder-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/) / 119 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 119 In the night the dog came again, took the Princess on his back and ran away with her to the Soldier, who was very much in love with her, and would have liked to have been a Prince, so that he might have had her for his wife. **Who acts:** dog, Soldier · **What happens:** come, take, run away, be, like, have · **To what, where:** night, Princess, back, love, Prince, Queen This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, Soldier), 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:pg640:46:119 # text = In the night the dog came again, took the Princess on his back and ran away with her to the Soldier, who was very much in love with her, and would have liked to have been a Prince, so that he might have had her for his wife. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 away away ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Soldier Soldier PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 26 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 much much ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux _ _ 36 liked like VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 parataxis _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 38 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux _ _ 39 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 41 cop _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 43 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 48 mark _ _ 44 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 fixed _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 46 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 47 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 48 aux _ _ 48 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 conj _ _ 49 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 for for ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the dog | the night *not said here* | | | again | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location night=Theme | | 2 | **take** | past | | the Princess | | King's back | night | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme on back=Destination | | 3 | **run away** | past | | | | | | with Queen; to the Soldier *result*; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to soldier=Result | | 4 | **is** | past | the Soldier | | | love | | with Queen | tree rules | | 5 | **like** | would · perfect | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive · perfect | | a Prince | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **have** | might · perfect | soldier | Queen | | | | for soldier's wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/118/) - next →: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/120/) - ↑ back to [The Tinder-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/)