---
title: Prince Llewelyn grew more and more terrified, and sought for his lit… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Llewelyn grew more and more terrified, and sought for his little son everywhere. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Beth Gellert, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/25/14/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Beth Gellert](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/25/) / 14

# Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 14

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Prince Llewelyn grew more and more terrified, and sought for his little son everywhere.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** grow, seek

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Beth Gellert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg7885:25:14
# text = Prince Llewelyn grew more and more terrified, and sought for his little son everywhere.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Llewelyn	Llewelyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | past | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Prince's little son; everywhere *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for son=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/25/13/)
- next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/25/15/)
- ↑ back to [Beth Gellert](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/25/)