--- title: The Princess Olga immediately ran to meet him, and began kissing him… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Princess Olga immediately ran to meet him, and began kissing him and embracing him, asking after his health, and telling him all about herself. Who acts: Princess Olga. 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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 Olga), 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:pg540:7:90 # text = The Princess Olga immediately ran to meet him, and began kissing him and embracing him, asking after his health, and telling him all about herself. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Olga Olga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 kissing kiss VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 xcomp _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 embracing embrace VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 conj _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 conj _ _ 19 after after ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 iobj _ _ 26 all all ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 about about ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past | the Princess Olga | | | | | immediately *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the Princess Olga *not said here* | brother | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 3 | **begin** | past | the Princess Olga *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **kiss** | gerund | the Princess Olga *not said here* | brother | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 5 | **embrace** | gerund | the Princess Olga *not said here* | brother | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | the Princess Olga *not said here* | | | | after brother's health | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Princess Olga *not said here* | | brother | | | about Olga | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about herself=Topic | 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 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/7/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/7/91/) - ↑ back to [The Death of Koshchei the Deathless](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/7/)