--- title: At the sight of them the young Princes were very much astonished, an… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: At the sight of them the young Princes were very much astonished, and still more so on learning their story; and they settled that each should take one of these poor forlorn ladies home with him, and marry her. Who acts: young Princes, Princesses, each. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Princes, Princesses, each), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7128:360`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7128:9:75 # text = At the sight of them the young Princes were very much astonished, and still more so on learning their story; and they settled that each should take one of these poor forlorn ladies home with him, and marry her. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 much much ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 astonished astonished ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 still still ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 12 conj _ _ 18 on on SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 learning learn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 advcl _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 settled settle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 29 nsubj _ _ 28 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 30 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 35 det _ _ 33 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 forlorn forlorn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 36 home home ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 42 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the young Princes | | | the sight of Princesses | | astonished *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **learn** | gerund | the young Princes *not said here* | Princesses's story | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic | | 3 | **settle** | past | Princesses *= princess* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **take** | should | each | one of this poor forlorn ladies | | | | with Prince; home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 5 | **marry** | infinitive | each *not said here* | wife | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 6 | **sight** | | | Princesses *= princess* | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/9/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/9/76/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/9/)