--- title: She went up to him and said, ‘I pronounce this spell, that you becom… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She went up to him and said, ‘I pronounce this spell, that you become a beautiful prince, and that Hadvor shall be unable to say anything against the charges that I shall bring against her.’ Who acts: Queen, I, you, Hadvor. 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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 (Queen, I, you, Hadvor), 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:pg640:49:44 # text = She went up to him and said, ‘I pronounce this spell, that you become a beautiful prince, and that Hadvor shall be unable to say anything against the charges that I shall bring against her.’ 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 pronounce pronounce VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 12 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 spell spell NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 Hadvor Hadvor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 27 unable unable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 29 obj _ _ 31 against against ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 charges charge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl:relcl _ _ 38 against against ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go up** | past | Queen | | thundering | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Queen *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **pronounce** | present | I | this spell | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme | | 4 | **become** | present | you | a beautiful prince | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is** | shall | Hadvor | | | | | unable *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Hadvor *not said here* | anything | | | | against the charges | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | | 7 | **bring** | shall | the charges | | | | | against Queen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent against she=Destination | 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/49/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/49/45/) - ↑ back to [Hermod and Hadvor (32)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/49/)