--- title: The prince thought, from this, he had leave to speak, but his master… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The prince thought, from this, he had leave to speak, but his master turned on him with a face of thunder and exclaimed: Who acts: prince, master. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/9/97/) [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 Grateful Prince, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/9/) / 97 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 97 The prince thought, from this, he had leave to speak, but his master turned on him with a face of thunder and exclaimed: **Who acts:** prince, master · **What happens:** think, have, leave, speak, turn, exclaim · **To what, where:** this · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, master), 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:pg641:9:97 # text = The prince thought, from this, he had leave to speak, but his master turned on him with a face of thunder and exclaimed: 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the prince | | | this | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | past | prince | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **leave** | infinitive | prince *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **turn** | past | prince's master | | | | | on prince; with a face of thunder | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on he=Trajectory | | 6 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | prince's master *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | 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 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/9/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/9/98/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Prince, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/9/)