--- title: The Prince, out of grateful remembrance of the Princess Sabella’s fi… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Prince, out of grateful remembrance of the Princess Sabella’s first gift to him bestowed the right of bearing her name upon the most beautiful of the martens, and that is why they are called sables to this day. Who acts: Prince, right, that, Princess Sabella. 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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 (Prince, right, that, Princess Sabella), 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:pg7277:18:1 # text = The Prince, out of grateful remembrance of the Princess Sabella’s first gift to him bestowed the right of bearing her name upon the most beautiful of the martens, and that is why they are called sables to this day. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 out out ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 grateful grateful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 remembrance remembrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Sabella Sabella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’s 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 amod _ _ 14 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nmod _ _ 17 bestowed bestow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 of of SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 bearing bear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 upon upon ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 27 advmod _ _ 27 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 martens marten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 parataxis _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 advcl _ _ 39 sables sable VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 42 det _ _ 42 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bestow** | past | the Prince | the right | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bear** | gerund | the right *not said here* | her name | | | | upon the beautiful | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | that | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **call** | present · passive | | martens *= marten* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 5 | **sable** | present | | | | | day | | tree rules | | 6 | **remember** | | | the Princess Sabella's first gift to Sabella | | | | | nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **gift** | | the Princess Sabella | | | | | to Sabella | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | | 8 | **name** | | her *= she* | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:** «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: [Heart of Ice, part 4, 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/70/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/18/2/) - ↑ back to [Heart of Ice, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/18/)