--- title: But the Prince answered, "Oh no, I cannot give away my parrot, it is… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But the Prince answered, "Oh no, I cannot give away my parrot, it is a great pet of mine; I have had it many years." Who acts: Prince, parrot. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, 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/pg7128/10/62/) [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/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/) / 62 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 62 But the Prince answered, "Oh no, I cannot give away my parrot, it is a great pet of mine; I have had it many years." **Who acts:** Prince, parrot · **What happens:** answer, not give away, be, have · **To what, where:** parrot, great pet · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, parrot), 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:pg7128:10:62 # text = But the Prince answered, "Oh no, I cannot give away my parrot, it is a great pet of mine; I have had it many years." 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ _ 8 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 14 away away ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 parataxis _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Prince | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **give away** *in a quote* | can | the Prince *= prince* | my parrot | | | | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent parrot=Theme | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | parrot | a great pet | | | | of the Prince *= prince* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Prince *= prince* | parrot | | | year | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/63/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/)