---
title: The Prince burst into a shout of joy when he suddenly perceived Mili… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince burst into a shout of joy when he suddenly perceived Militza in the centre of a group of girls who were weaving wreaths of flowers with which to deck their mistress. Who acts: Prince, girls. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, with
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/13/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/) / 13

# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 13

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Prince burst into a shout of joy when he suddenly perceived Militza in the centre of a group of girls who were weaving wreaths of flowers with which to deck their mistress.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Prince, girls · **What happens:** burst, perceive, weave, deck, shout · **To what, where:** shout, Militza, centre, wreaths, mistress, joy

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (Prince, girls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg640:31:13
# text = The Prince burst into a shout of joy when he suddenly perceived Militza in the centre of a group of girls who were weaving wreaths of flowers with which to deck their mistress.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	Militza	Militza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	deck	deck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | past | the Prince |  |  | a shout of joy |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **perceive** | past | Prince | Militza |  | the centre of a group of girls |  | suddenly *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer militza=Stimulus |
| 3 | **weave** | past · progressive | girls | wreaths of flowers |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wreath=Product |
| 4 | **deck** | to-infinitive | girls *not said here* |  | flowers's mistress |  |  | with flowers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent mistress=Destination with which=Theme |
| 5 | **shout** |  |  | joy |  |  |  |  | nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/12/)
- next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/14/)
- ↑ back to [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/)