--- title: When the wedding was all but over the Princess got up quickly, hopin… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the wedding was all but over the Princess got up quickly, hoping to slip away unnoticed among the crowd, but, to her great dismay, she found every door fastened. Who acts: Princess, great dismay. 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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 (Princess, great dismay), 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:pg503:31:88 # text = When the wedding was all but over the Princess got up quickly, hoping to slip away unnoticed among the crowd, but, to her great dismay, she found every door fastened. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 5 all all ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 7 over over SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 hoping hope VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 slip slip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 away away ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 unnoticed unnoticed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 19 among among ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 dismay dismay NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 fastened fasten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get up** | past | the Princess | | | | | quickly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **hope** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **slip away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | away, unnoticed *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **find** | past | Princess | every door | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic | | 5 | **is** | past | Princess's great dismay | the wedding *not said here* | | | | all, fasten *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **dismay** | | Princess | | | | | | nom dismay «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/87/) - next →: [The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/32/1/) - ↑ back to [The Wonderful Sheep, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/)