--- title: Luckily for him, the emperor’s daughter had overheard everything her… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Luckily for him, the emperor’s daughter had overheard everything her father had said, and peeping through a curtain had seen the youth, and thought him handsomer than anyone she had ever beheld. Who acts: daughter, father, peeping. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/23/9/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Enchanted Knife](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/23/) / 9 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 9 Luckily for him, the emperor’s daughter had overheard everything her father had said, and peeping through a curtain had seen the youth, and thought him handsomer than anyone she had ever beheld. **Who acts:** daughter, father, peeping · **What happens:** overhear, say, peep, see, think, behold · **To what, where:** everything, youth, man, daughter · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, father, peeping), 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:pg641:23:9 # text = Luckily for him, the emperor’s daughter had overheard everything her father had said, and peeping through a curtain had seen the youth, and thought him handsomer than anyone she had ever beheld. 1 Luckily luckily ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’s 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 overheard overhear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 11 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 10 obj _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 peeping peep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 csubj:pass _ _ 19 through through ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 curtain curtain NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 handsomer handsome ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 xcomp _ _ 31 than than ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 30 obl _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 36 advmod _ _ 36 beheld behold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **overhear** | past · perfect | the emperor's daughter | everything | | | | luckily *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | daughter's father | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **peep** | gerund | | | | | | through a curtain | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through curtain=Theme | | 4 | **see** | past · perfect | peeping | the youth | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | daughter's father *not said here* | man | | | | handsome *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | | 6 | **behold** | past · perfect · passive | | daughter | | | ever | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/23/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/23/10/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Knife](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/23/)