--- title: When he had recovered from his surprise at the unexpected disappeara… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When he had recovered from his surprise at the unexpected disappearance of the maiden, the prince exclaimed, ‘What can be the matter?’ and, looking about him, discovered the old witch hidden under the bed. Who acts: prince, maiden. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-h --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/23/) [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 Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/) / 23 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 23 When he had recovered from his surprise at the unexpected disappearance of the maiden, the prince exclaimed, ‘What can be the matter?’ and, looking about him, discovered the old witch hidden under the bed. **Who acts:** prince, maiden · **What happens:** recover, exclaim, be, look, discover, hide · **To what, where:** surprise, matter, old witch, bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, maiden), 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:pg641:7:23 # text = When he had recovered from his surprise at the unexpected disappearance of the maiden, the prince exclaimed, ‘What can be the matter?’ and, looking about him, discovered the old witch hidden under the bed. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 recovered recover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 unexpected unexpected ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 disappearance disappearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 25 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ? ? PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 31 about about ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 discovered discover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl _ _ 39 under under ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **recover** | past · perfect | prince | | | prince's surprise | | at the unexpected disappearance of the maiden | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from surprise=Source | | 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the prince | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | can | | the matter | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **look** | gerund | the prince *not said here* | | | | | about prince | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | | 5 | **discover** | past | the prince *not said here* | the old witch | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Topic | | 6 | **hide** | participle | | the old witch *not said here* | | the bed | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bed=Location | | 7 | **surprise** | | prince | | | | | | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **disappear** | | the maiden | | | | | | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/24/) - ↑ back to [The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/7/)