--- title: "Well," said the young prince, "I will give you something to eat and… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Well," said the young prince, "I will give you something to eat and drink if you will do as I bid you." " Who acts: young prince, you. 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" **Who acts:** young prince, you · **What happens:** say, give, eat, drink, do, bid · **To what, where:** something, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young prince, you), 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:pg7128:24:27 # text = "Well," said the young prince, "I will give you something to eat and drink if you will do as I bid you." " 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 bid bid VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the young prince | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **give** *in a quote* | future | the young prince *= prince* | something | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Theme | | 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the young prince *= prince* *not said here* | something *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive | the young prince *= prince* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **bid** *in a quote* | past | the young prince *= prince* | you | | | | | tree rules | 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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/28/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/)