--- title: While the Princess was still looking after him in horror, her attent… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: While the Princess was still looking after him in horror, her attention was attracted by a rushing noise over her head, and looking up she saw two chariots approaching rapidly from opposite directions. Who acts: Princess, rushing noise, carbuncle, two chariots. 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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, rushing noise, carbuncle, two chariots), 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:pg540:5:13 # text = While the Princess was still looking after him in horror, her attention was attracted by a rushing noise over her head, and looking up she saw two chariots approaching rapidly from opposite directions. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 still still ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 7 after after ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 horror horror NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 attracted attract VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 rushing rush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 amod _ _ 19 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 over over ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 chariots chariot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 approaching approach VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 32 rapidly rapidly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 opposite opposite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 directions direction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past · progressive | the Princess | | | | after Fanfaronade; still | in horror | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in horror=Theme | | 2 | **attract** | past · passive | a rushing noise over carbuncle's head | carbuncle's attention | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 3 | **rush** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **look up** | gerund | carbuncle *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **see** | past | carbuncle | two chariots | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chariot=Stimulus | | 6 | **approach** | gerund | two chariots *not said here* | | | opposite directions | | rapidly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from direction=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **attend** | | carbuncle | | | | | | nom attention «cognition 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/5/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/5/14/) - ↑ back to [The Princess Mayblossom, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/5/)