--- title: Then all the princes and great men spoke up, and said to the son of… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then all the princes and great men spoke up, and said to the son of the king of Emania: "You'll have to fight now for her before we let her go with you." Who acts: princes, son, we, lady. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, with its dependency tree and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/23/112/) [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/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [Fair, Brown, and Trembling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/23/) / 112 # Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 112 Then all the princes and great men spoke up, and said to the son of the king of Emania: "You'll have to fight now for her before we let her go with you." **Who acts:** princes, son, we, lady · **What happens:** speak up, say, have, fight, let, go · **To what, where:** son, lady · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes, son, we, lady), 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:pg7885:23:112 # text = Then all the princes and great men spoke up, and said to the son of the king of Emania: "You'll have to fight now for her before we let her go with you." 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 2 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 4 det:predet _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 8 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Emania Emania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 31 before before SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak up** *speech: other* | past | all princes and great men | | | | then | | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | all princes and great men *not said here* | | the son of the king of Emania | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | future | the son of the king of Emania *= son* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fight** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the son of the king of Emania *= son* *not said here* | lady | | | now | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Co-Agent | | 5 | **let** *in a quote* | past | we | lady | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | lady *not said here* | | | | | with the son of the king of Emania *= son* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary | 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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/23/111/) - next →: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/23/113/) - ↑ back to [Fair, Brown, and Trembling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/23/)