--- title: ‘Very well,’ said the prince, ‘I don’t mind’; and she stretched out… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Very well,’ said the prince, ‘I don’t mind’; and she stretched out her rod and hit the beasts, and in one moment they were turned into stone, and so was the prince. Who acts: I, wolf. 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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 (I, wolf), 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:pg641:5:100 # text = ‘Very well,’ said the prince, ‘I don’t mind’; and she stretched out her rod and hit the beasts, and in one moment they were turned into stone, and so was the prince. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Very very ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 13 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 mind mind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 stretched stretch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 35 into into ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the prince | | | | well *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **mind** | present · do-support | I | | | | | | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **stretch out** | past | wolf | wolf's rod | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rod=Patient | | 4 | **hit** | past | wolf *not said here* | the beasts | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme beast=Co-Theme | | 5 | **turn** | past · passive | | beasts *= beast* | | stone | moment | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into stone=Trajectory | | 6 | **is a** | past | | the prince | | | | | tree rules | 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 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/99/) - next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/101/) - ↑ back to [The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/)