--- title: The princess looked at them closely, and felt the edges and points o… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The princess looked at them closely, and felt the edges and points of their blades, then she hung at her belt an old sword with a curved blade, that would have done credit to an ancient warrior. Who acts: princess. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/23/) [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/pg641/39/) / 23 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 23 The princess looked at them closely, and felt the edges and points of their blades, then she hung at her belt an old sword with a curved blade, that would have done credit to an ancient warrior. **Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** look, feel, hang, curve, do, point · **To what, where:** edges, belt, that, blades This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (princess), 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:pg641:39:23 # text = The princess looked at them closely, and felt the edges and points of their blades, then she hung at her belt an old sword with a curved blade, that would have done credit to an ancient warrior. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 closely closely ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 points point NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 blades blade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 21 at at 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 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 curved curve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 30 blade blade NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux _ _ 35 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 36 credit credit NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 warrior warrior NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | the princess | | | | | at stones *= stone*; closely *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | | 2 | **feel** | past | | the edges and points of stones's blades | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Theme | | 3 | **hang** | past | princess | | | princess's belt and a old sword with a curved blade | then | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at belt=Location | | 4 | **curve** | participle | | | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | | 5 | **do** | would · perfect · passive | | that | | | | to a ancient warrior | tree rules | | 6 | **point** | | | stones's blades | | | | | nom point «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 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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/24/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/)