--- title: When the princess saw how beautiful he was, she fell in love with hi… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the princess saw how beautiful he was, she fell in love with him, and asked him: ‘Why did you come here disguised in a sheepskin like that?’ Who acts: princess, king, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/37/24/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/37/) / 24 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 24 When the princess saw how beautiful he was, she fell in love with him, and asked him: ‘Why did you come here disguised in a sheepskin like that?’ **Who acts:** princess, king, you · **What happens:** see, be, fall, ask, come, disguise · **To what, where:** love, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, king, 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:pg641:37:24 # text = When the princess saw how beautiful he was, she fell in love with him, and asked him: ‘Why did you come here disguised in a sheepskin like that?’ 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 5 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 6 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 23 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 26 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 27 disguised disguise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 advcl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 sheepskin sheepskin NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ? ? PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | the princess | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | past | king | | | | | beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **fall** | past | princess | | | love | | with king | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | princess *not said here* | | king | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **come** | past · do-support | you | | | here | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **disguise** | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | like that; in a sheepskin | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sheepskin=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 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/37/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/37/25/) - ↑ back to [The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/37/)