--- title: The Prince smiled, saying, "What help could _you_ give _me_?" — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The Prince smiled, saying, "What help could _you_ give _me_?" Who acts: Prince, help, _. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, 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/pg7128/21/16/) [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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/) / 16 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 16 The Prince smiled, saying, "What help could \_you\_ give \_me\_?" **Who acts:** Prince, help, \_ · **What happens:** smile, say, \_, give · **To what, where:** you, Prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, help, \_), 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:pg7128:21:16 # text = The Prince smiled, saying, "What help could _you_ give _me_?" 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 smiled smile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 11 obj _ _ 9 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 _ _ VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 _ _ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 15 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smile** | past | the Prince | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | gerund | the Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **\_** *in a quote* | could | help | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **give** *in a quote* | present | \_ | | the Prince *= prince* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/17/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/)