--- title: As he met with no hindrance, he soon reached the enchanted wood whic… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As he met with no hindrance, he soon reached the enchanted wood which surrounded the castle, and there he thought he saw the Princess Sunbeam gliding before him among the trees. Who acts: Prince, Princess Sunbeam. 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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 (Prince, Princess Sunbeam), 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:pg540:36:23 # text = As he met with no hindrance, he soon reached the enchanted wood which surrounded the castle, and there he thought he saw the Princess Sunbeam gliding before him among the trees. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 hindrance hindrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 10 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 enchanted enchant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 22 expl _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Sunbeam Sunbeam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 gliding glide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 xcomp _ _ 29 before before ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 among among ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | past | Prince | | | | | with no hindrance | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with hindrance=Co-Agent | | 2 | **reach** | past | Prince | the enchanted wood | | | | soon *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | | 3 | **enchant** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **surround** | participle · passive | | the enchanted wood | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Prince | | | there | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **see** | past | Prince | the Princess Sunbeam | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **glide** | gerund | the Princess Sunbeam *not said here* | | | the trees | before Prince | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme before he=Source among tree=Trajectory | 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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/36/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/36/24/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Branch, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/36/)