--- title: When all were ready and expectant, the prince with his dagger forced… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When all were ready and expectant, the prince with his dagger forced open the lid and flung it back, and there lay, living and breathing, the most lovely maiden he had ever seen in his life. Who acts: all, prince. 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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 (all, prince), 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:pg3454:4:83 # text = When all were ready and expectant, the prince with his dagger forced open the lid and flung it back, and there lay, living and breathing, the most lovely maiden he had ever seen in his life. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 expectant expectant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 dagger dagger NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 forced force VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 flung fling VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 24 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 breathing breathe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 32 advmod _ _ 32 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 37 advmod _ _ 37 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 acl:relcl _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | all | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **force** | past | the prince with prince's dagger | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **open** | infinitive | the prince with prince's dagger *not said here* | the lid | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lid=Theme | | 4 | **fling back** | past | the prince with prince's dagger *not said here* | lid | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **lay** | infinitive | the prince with prince's dagger *not said here* | the lovely maiden | | there | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **live** | gerund | the prince with prince's dagger *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **breathe** | gerund | the prince with prince's dagger *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **see** | past · perfect | prince | the lovely maiden *not said here* | | prince's life | ever | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/4/82/) - next →: [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/5/1/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/4/)