--- title: The prince did as he was bid, and as the hair touched his fingers th… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The prince did as he was bid, and as the hair touched his fingers the wolf changed back into a mare, with the foal beside her. Who acts: prince, hair, wolf. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/137/) [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 Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/) / 137 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 137 The prince did as he was bid, and as the hair touched his fingers the wolf changed back into a mare, with the foal beside her. **Who acts:** prince, hair, wolf · **What happens:** do, bid, touch, change back · **To what, where:** prince, fingers This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, hair, 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:pg641:7:137 # text = The prince did as he was bid, and as the hair touched his fingers the wolf changed back into a mare, with the foal beside her. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 bid bid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 19 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 mare mare NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 foal foal NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 27 beside beside ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | the prince | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bid** | past · passive | | prince | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **touch** | past | the hair | prince's fingers | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme finger=Co-Theme | | 4 | **change back** | past | the wolf | | | | | into a mare *result*; with the foal beside mare | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into mare=Result | 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 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/136/) - next →: [sentence 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/138/) - ↑ back to [The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/)