--- title: Seeing this, the youngest Princess, who was the only one who could r… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Seeing this, the youngest Princess, who was the only one who could run, fled to her father the King in a great fright, saying: Who acts: youngest Princess, only one. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/45/) [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/) / 45 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 45 Seeing this, the youngest Princess, who was the only one who could run, fled to her father the King in a great fright, saying: **Who acts:** youngest Princess, only one · **What happens:** see, be, run, flee, say · **To what, where:** this, only one, great fright · **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 (youngest Princess, only one), 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:pg7128:21:45 # text = Seeing this, the youngest Princess, who was the only one who could run, fled to her father the King in a great fright, saying: 1 Seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 17 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 fright fright NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | gerund | the youngest Princess *not said here* | this | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | past | the youngest Princess | the only one | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **run** | could | the only one | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **flee** | past | the youngest Princess | | | a great fright | | to Princess's father | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the youngest Princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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:** «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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/46/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/)