--- title: Then the princess, according to their understanding, began to clean… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the princess, according to their understanding, began to clean her wings with her bill, and the lad said: ‘She who cleans her wings is the princess.’ Who acts: princess, lad, maidens. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/37/46/) [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 Princess Who Was Hidden Underground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/37/) / 46 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 46 Then the princess, according to their understanding, began to clean her wings with her bill, and the lad said: ‘She who cleans her wings is the princess.’ **Who acts:** princess, lad, maidens · **What happens:** accord, begin, clean, say, be, understand · **To what, where:** wings, princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, lad, maidens), 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:pg641:37:46 # text = Then the princess, according to their understanding, began to clean her wings with her bill, and the lad said: ‘She who cleans her wings is the princess.’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 case _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 5 fixed _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 understanding understanding NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 23 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 cleans clean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **begin** | past | the princess and maidens's understanding | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **clean** | to-infinitive | the princess and maidens's understanding *not said here* | princess's wings | | | | with princess's bill | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wing=Patient with bill=Instrument | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the lad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **clean** | present | princess | princess's wings | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | | 6 | **is a** | present | | the princess | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **understand** | | maidens *= maiden* | | | | | | nom understanding «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **bill** | | princess | | | | | | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/37/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/37/47/) - ↑ back to [The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/37/)