--- title: Overjoyed to have found her, Prince Darling perched upon her shoulde… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Overjoyed to have found her, Prince Darling perched upon her shoulder, trying to express by his caresses how glad he was to see her again, and Celia, surprised and delighted by the tameness of this pretty white dove, stroked it softly, and said, though she never thought of its understanding her: Who --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/149/) [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 Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Prince Darling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/) / 149 # The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 149 Overjoyed to have found her, Prince Darling perched upon her shoulder, trying to express by his caresses how glad he was to see her again, and Celia, surprised and delighted by the tameness of this pretty white dove, stroked it softly, and said, though she never thought of its understanding her: **Who acts:** Prince Darling, prince, Celia, dove · **What happens:** overjoy, find, perch, try, express, see · **To what, where:** Celia, shoulder, glad, dove · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince Darling, prince, Celia, dove), 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:pg503:39:149 # text = Overjoyed to have found her, Prince Darling perched upon her shoulder, trying to express by his caresses how glad he was to see her again, and Celia, surprised and delighted by the tameness of this pretty white dove, stroked it softly, and said, though she never thought of its understanding her: 1 Overjoyed overjoy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 3 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux _ _ 4 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Darling Darling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 perched perch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 10 upon upon ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 express express VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 caresses caress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 21 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 obj _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 again again ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 Celia Celia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ _ 35 by by ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 tameness tameness NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 39 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 42 nsubj _ _ 40 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 41 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 dove dove NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 stroked stroke VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 softly softly ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 51 though though SCONJ IN _ 54 mark _ _ 52 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 53 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 54 advmod _ _ 54 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 ccomp _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 57 nmod:poss _ _ 57 understanding understanding NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ _ 58 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 59 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **overjoy** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **find** | to-infinitive · perfect | | Celia | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | | 3 | **perch** | past | Prince Darling | | | Celia's shoulder | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon shoulder=Location | | 4 | **try** | gerund | Prince Darling *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **express** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Prince Darling *not said here* | | | | | by prince's caresses | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **see** | past | prince | glad | | | again | | tree rules | | 7 | **stroke** | past | | dove | | | | softly *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past | Celia | | | | | of dove's understanding trace | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **caress** | | prince | | | | | | nom caress «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 11 | **understand** | | dove | | | | | | nom understanding «cognition 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 148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/148/) - next →: [sentence 150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/150/) - ↑ back to [Prince Darling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/)