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title: Only the beautiful Princess rejoiced over Ferko’s success, and looke… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Only the beautiful Princess rejoiced over Ferko’s success, and looked on him with friendly glances, which the youth returned. Who acts: beautiful Princess, youth. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 14

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Only the beautiful Princess rejoiced over Ferko’s success, and looked on him with friendly glances, which the youth returned.

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**Who acts:** beautiful Princess, youth · **What happens:** rejoice, look, return · **To what, where:** success, friendly glances

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful Princess, youth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg640:15:14
# text = Only the beautiful Princess rejoiced over Ferko’s success, and looked on him with friendly glances, which the youth returned.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	glances	glance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** | past | the beautiful Princess |  |  | Ferko's success |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **look** | past | the beautiful Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on Ferko; with friendly glances | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | past | the youth | friendly glances |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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