--- title: She was so dazzled and delighted by what she saw, that there she sta… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She was so dazzled and delighted by what she saw, that there she stayed, never taking her eyes away from the peep-hole for a single minute, until presently the ambassador’s procession appeared in sight. Who acts: Princess, procession, ambassador. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/51/) [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 Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Princess Mayblossom, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/) / 51 # The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 51 She was so dazzled and delighted by what she saw, that there she stayed, never taking her eyes away from the peep-hole for a single minute, until presently the ambassador’s procession appeared in sight. **Who acts:** Princess, procession, ambassador · **What happens:** dazzle, delight, see, stay, not take away, appear · **To what, where:** Princess, eyes, peep hole, sight This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, procession, ambassador), 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:pg540:3:51 # text = She was so dazzled and delighted by what she saw, that there she stayed, never taking her eyes away from the peep-hole for a single minute, until presently the ambassador’s procession appeared in sight. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 dazzled dazzle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 delighted delight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 obl _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 peep peep NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 32 until until SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 33 presently presently ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 ambassador ambassador NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ’s 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 procession procession NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dazzle** | past · passive | | Princess | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 2 | **delight** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **see** | past | Princess | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **stay** | past | Princess | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **take away** | gerund | Princess *not said here* | Princess's eyes | | the peep hole for a single minute | | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme from hole=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **appear** | past | the ambassador's procession | | | sight | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | | 7 | **proceed** | | the ambassador | | | | | | nom procession «event intransitive»: 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/52/) - ↑ back to [The Princess Mayblossom, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/)