--- title: Prince Mannikin was deeply interested in this curious story, and col… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Prince Mannikin was deeply interested in this curious story, and collected a quantity of the dust from the bottom of the boat, which he carefully preserved, thinking that its strange property might one day stand him in good stead. Who acts: Mannikin, Prince, strange property. A sentence of «The Gree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/14/71/) [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/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Heart of Ice, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/14/) / 71 # The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 71 Prince Mannikin was deeply interested in this curious story, and collected a quantity of the dust from the bottom of the boat, which he carefully preserved, thinking that its strange property might one day stand him in good stead. **Who acts:** Mannikin, Prince, strange property · **What happens:** be, collect, preserve, think, stand · **To what, where:** curious story, quantity, bottom, boat, Prince, good stead · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mannikin, Prince, strange property), 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:pg7277:14:71 # text = Prince Mannikin was deeply interested in this curious story, and collected a quantity of the dust from the bottom of the boat, which he carefully preserved, thinking that its strange property might one day stand him in good stead. 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Mannikin Mannikin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 deeply deeply ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 interested interested ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 8 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 collected collect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 quantity quantity NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 obj _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 preserved preserve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 property property NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 35 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 36 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl:unmarked _ _ 38 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 ccomp _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 stead stead NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Mannikin Prince | | | this curious story | | deeply, interested *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **collect** | past | | a quantity of the dust | | the bottom of the boat | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme from bottom=Source | | 3 | **preserve** | past | Prince | the boat | | | | carefully *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **stand** | might | boat's strange property | Prince | | good stead | day | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in stead=Destination | 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:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/14/70/) - next →: [Heart of Ice, part 2, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/1/) - ↑ back to [Heart of Ice, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/14/)