--- title: The princess saw with delight that they would pay no heed to her, an… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The princess saw with delight that they would pay no heed to her, and wandered on and on, expecting every moment to see some fairies dancing round a ring, or some little brown elves peeping at her from behind a tree. Who acts: princess, attendants, fairies, little brown elves. A sentence of «The Bro --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/28/16/) [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 Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/28/) / 16 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 16 The princess saw with delight that they would pay no heed to her, and wandered on and on, expecting every moment to see some fairies dancing round a ring, or some little brown elves peeping at her from behind a tree. **Who acts:** princess, attendants, fairies, little brown elves · **What happens:** see, pay, wander, expect, dance, peep · **To what, where:** heed, princess, fairies, ring, tree · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, attendants, fairies, little brown elves), 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:pg3282:28:16 # text = The princess saw with delight that they would pay no heed to her, and wandered on and on, expecting every moment to see some fairies dancing round a ring, or some little brown elves peeping at her from behind a tree. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 delight delight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 10 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 11 det _ _ 11 heed heed NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 wandered wander VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 on on ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 on on ADV RB _ 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 expecting expect VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 26 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 27 det _ _ 27 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 dancing dance VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 round round ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 34 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 37 det _ _ 35 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 elves elf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 peeping peep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 41 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 behind behind ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | the princess | | | | | with delight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **pay** | would | attendants *= attendant* | no heed | princess | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset | | 3 | **wander** | past | the princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **expect** | gerund | the princess *not said here* | | | | moment | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | the princess *not said here* | some fairies | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fairy=Stimulus | | 6 | **dance** | gerund | some fairies *not said here* | | | a ring | | | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme round ring=Trajectory | | 7 | **peep** | gerund | some little brown elves | princess | | a tree | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent her=Theme | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/28/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/28/17/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/28/)