--- title: The princess rode up without seeing anything to frighten her, when a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The princess rode up without seeing anything to frighten her, when a sudden puff of smoke and flame from beneath her feet, caused her to look down, and there was the horrible creature twisted and writhing, its twelve heads reared up as if to seize her between them. Who acts: princess, sudden puff, h --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/113/) [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 Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/) / 113 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 113 The princess rode up without seeing anything to frighten her, when a sudden puff of smoke and flame from beneath her feet, caused her to look down, and there was the horrible creature twisted and writhing, its twelve heads reared up as if to seize her between them. **Who acts:** princess, sudden puff, horrible creature, twelve heads · **What happens:** ride up, see, frighten, cause, look down, be · **To what, where:** anything, lion, horrible creature, smoke This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, sudden puff, horrible creature, twelve heads), 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:pg641:38:113 # text = The princess rode up without seeing anything to frighten her, when a sudden puff of smoke and flame from beneath her feet, caused her to look down, and there was the horrible creature twisted and writhing, its twelve heads reared up as if to seize her between them. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 without without SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 7 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 frighten frighten VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 10 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 puff puff NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 flame flame NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 25 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 29 down down ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 33 expl _ _ 33 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 horrible horrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 37 twisted twist VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 writhing writhing NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 43 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 44 reared rear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 parataxis _ _ 45 up up ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 46 as as SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 47 if if SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 seize seize VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 advcl _ _ 50 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ _ 51 between between ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ride up** | past | the princess | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **see** | gerund | the princess *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | | 3 | **frighten** | to-infinitive | the princess *not said here* | lion | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | | 4 | **cause** | past | a sudden puff of smoke and flame from lion's feet | | lion | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **look down** | to-infinitive | a sudden puff of smoke and flame from lion's feet *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **be** | past | the horrible creature | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **twist** | participle | | the horrible creature *not said here* | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **rear up** | past | creature's twelve heads | | | | | | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **seize** | to-infinitive | creature's twelve heads *not said here* | lion | | | | between puff | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 10 | **puff** | | | smoke | | | | | nom puff «phenomenon 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 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 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/112/) - next →: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/114/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/)