--- title: So the prince walked into the palace, and went straight up to the co… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So the prince walked into the palace, and went straight up to the coachman and said: ‘What token have you got that you killed the dragon and won the hand of the princess? Who acts: prince, token, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuania --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/88/) [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 Three Princes and Their Beasts (li…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/) / 88 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 88 So the prince walked into the palace, and went straight up to the coachman and said: ‘What token have you got that you killed the dragon and won the hand of the princess? **Who acts:** prince, token, you · **What happens:** walk, go, say, get, kill, win · **To what, where:** palace, coachman, dragon, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, token, 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:pg641:5:88 # text = So the prince walked into the palace, and went straight up to the coachman and said: ‘What token have you got that you killed the dragon and won the hand of the princess? 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 straight straight ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 up up ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 coachman coachman NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 19 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 21 det _ _ 21 token token NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 ccomp _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | past | the prince | | | | | into the palace *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into palace=Result | | 2 | **go** | past | the prince *not said here* | | | the coachman | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to coachman=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **get** | present · perfect | what token | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **kill** | past | you | the dragon | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme | | 6 | **win** | past | you *not said here* | the hand of the princess | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Eventuality | 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 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/89/) - ↑ back to [The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/)