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title: Great was their delight and astonishment when the Prince entered, le… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Great was their delight and astonishment when the Prince entered, leading the beautiful maiden by the hand. Who acts: Great delight. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 122

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Great was their delight and astonishment when the Prince entered, leading the beautiful maiden by the hand.

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**Who acts:** Great delight · **What happens:** be, enter, lead · **To what, where:** Great delight, beautiful maiden

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great delight), 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:pg503:26:122
# text = Great was their delight and astonishment when the Prince entered, leading the beautiful maiden by the hand.
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | maidens's Great delight and astonishment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** | past | maidens's Great delight and astonishment |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund | maidens's Great delight and astonishment *not said here* | the beautiful maiden |  |  |  | by the hand | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme by hand=Destination |

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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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