--- title: The prince was much pleased with the doves and was coaxing them to c… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The prince was much pleased with the doves and was coaxing them to come to him, when one fluttered on to the top of the window and said, ‘If you could only hear us speak, you would admire us still more.’ Who acts: prince, one, you, us. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/85/) [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 Prince Who Wanted to See the World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/) / 85 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 85 The prince was much pleased with the doves and was coaxing them to come to him, when one fluttered on to the top of the window and said, ‘If you could only hear us speak, you would admire us still more.’ **Who acts:** prince, one, you, us · **What happens:** be, coax, come, flutter, say, hear · **To what, where:** doves, prince, top, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, one, you, us), 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:pg641:42:85 # text = The prince was much pleased with the doves and was coaxing them to come to him, when one fluttered on to the top of the window and said, ‘If you could only hear us speak, you would admire us still more.’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 much much ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 doves dove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 coaxing coax VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nsubj _ _ 20 fluttered flutter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 If if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 only only ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 37 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 admire admire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 43 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 still still ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 42 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the prince | | | | | with the doves; pleased *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **coax** | past · progressive | the prince *not said here* | doves *= dove* | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* | | prince | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **flutter** | participle | one | | | the top of the window | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | one *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **hear** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | you | us | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **admire** | would | you | us | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus | 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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/86/) - ↑ back to [The Prince Who Wanted to See the World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/)