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title: They hastened with every sign of joy to the Princess, kissing her ha… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They hastened with every sign of joy to the Princess, kissing her hand and congratulating her on being once more restored to her natural shape. Who acts: astonishment. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 56

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They hastened with every sign of joy to the Princess, kissing her hand and congratulating her on being once more restored to her natural shape.

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**Who acts:** astonishment · **What happens:** hasten, kiss, congratulate, be, sign · **To what, where:** hand, princess, joy

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (astonishment), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg503:24:56
# text = They hastened with every sign of joy to the Princess, kissing her hand and congratulating her on being once more restored to her natural shape.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	kissing	kiss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	congratulating	congratulate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advmod	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	restored	restore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | past | astonishment |  |  |  |  | with every sign of joy to the Princess | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with sign=Eventuality |
| 2 | **kiss** | gerund | astonishment *not said here* | princess's hand |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **congratulate** | gerund | astonishment *not said here* | princess |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | astonishment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to princess's natural shape; once, restore *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sign** |  |  | joy to the Princess |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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