--- title: It was at this moment that the Invisible Prince appeared, and at the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It was at this moment that the Invisible Prince appeared, and at the sight of the Prince of the Genii mounting into the air, holding a silken cord, he guessed instantly that he was carrying off Rosalie. Who acts: fountain, Invisible Prince, sight, Prince. 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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 (fountain, Invisible Prince, sight, Prince), 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:pg640:17:58 # text = It was at this moment that the Invisible Prince appeared, and at the sight of the Prince of the Genii mounting into the air, holding a silken cord, he guessed instantly that he was carrying off Rosalie. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 5 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Invisible Invisible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Genii Genii PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 mounting mount VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 silken silken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 cord cord NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 guessed guess VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 34 instantly instantly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 39 off off ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 Rosalie Rosalie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | fountain | | | | at this moment | | tree rules | | 2 | **appear** | past | the Invisible Prince | | | the sight of the Prince of the Genii | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Location | | 3 | **mount** | gerund | the sight of the Prince of the Genii *not said here* | | | the air | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Location | | 4 | **hold** | gerund | the sight of the Prince of the Genii *not said here* | a silken cord | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme | | 5 | **guess** | past | Prince | | | | | instantly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **carry off** | past · progressive | Prince | Rosalie | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rosalie=Theme | | 7 | **sight** | | | the Prince of the Genii | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/59/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/)