--- title: Weak as he was from his long illness, the prince descended the stair… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Weak as he was from his long illness, the prince descended the staircase, supported by the ministers, and entered the room just in time to hear his father's loud cry of astonishment and disgust at the sight of Cerisette. Who acts: prince, Weak long illness, astonishment. A sentence of «The Orange Fa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/58/) [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 Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/) / 58 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 58 Weak as he was from his long illness, the prince descended the staircase, supported by the ministers, and entered the room just in time to hear his father's loud cry of astonishment and disgust at the sight of Cerisette. **Who acts:** prince, Weak long illness, astonishment · **What happens:** be, descend, support, enter, hear, cry · **To what, where:** Weak long illness, staircase, room, loud cry, sight, Cerisette This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, Weak long illness, astonishment), 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:pg3027:23:58 # text = Weak as he was from his long illness, the prince descended the staircase, supported by the ministers, and entered the room just in time to hear his father's loud cry of astonishment and disgust at the sight of Cerisette. 1 Weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 descended descend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 staircase staircase NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 supported support VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 ministers minister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 just just ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 advcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 32 's 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 astonishment astonishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 disgust disgust NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 Cerisette Cerisette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | prince | | | prince's Weak long illness | | | tree rules | | 2 | **descend** | past | prince's Weak long illness | the staircase | | | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location staircase=Theme | | 3 | **support** | participle | | the staircase *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **enter** | past | prince's Weak long illness *not said here* | the room | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | | 5 | **hear** | to-infinitive | prince's Weak long illness *not said here* | prince's father's loud cry of astonishment and disgust | | the sight of Cerisette | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | | 6 | **cry** | | astonishment | | | | | | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent | | 7 | **sight** | | | Cerisette | | | | | 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:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/59/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/)