--- title: That night, when the prince went to his master to hear what his next… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: That night, when the prince went to his master to hear what his next day’s work was to be, the old man said: ‘I have a little hay-stack out in the meadow which must be brought in to dry. Who acts: prince, work, old man, I. 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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 (prince, work, old man, I), 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:pg641:10:47 # text = That night, when the prince went to his master to hear what his next day’s work was to be, the old man said: ‘I have a little hay-stack out in the meadow which must be brought in to dry. 1 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 12 obj _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ’s 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 28 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 stack stack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl _ _ 36 out out ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 acl:relcl _ _ 44 in in ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 dry dry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the prince | | | prince's master | night | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to master=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is a** | infinitive | prince's next day's work | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **have** | present | I | a little hay | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient | | 6 | **stack out** | infinitive | a little hay *not said here* | | | the meadow | | | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in meadow=Destination | | 7 | **bring in** | must · passive | | the meadow | | | | | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | | 8 | **dry** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **work** | | prince's next day | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/10/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/10/48/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Prince, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/10/)