--- title: As he wished to make what he considered a suitable entry into the Ki… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As he wished to make what he considered a suitable entry into the King’s palace, he stepped outside the Princess’s little domain, and mounted upon an immense chariot with great solid wheels, and shafts like the trunk of an oak-tree, but all of solid gold. Who acts: absence. A sentence of «The Green --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/111/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Prince Narcissus and the Princess Pote…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/) / 111 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 111 As he wished to make what he considered a suitable entry into the King’s palace, he stepped outside the Princess’s little domain, and mounted upon an immense chariot with great solid wheels, and shafts like the trunk of an oak-tree, but all of solid gold. **Who acts:** absence · **What happens:** wish, make, consider, step, mount, shaft · **To what, where:** suitable entry, palace, little domain, immense chariot This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (absence), 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:pg7277:11:111 # text = As he wished to make what he considered a suitable entry into the King’s palace, he stepped outside the Princess’s little domain, and mounted upon an immense chariot with great solid wheels, and shafts like the trunk of an oak-tree, but all of solid gold. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 obj _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 considered consider VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 suitable suitable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 entry entry NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ’s 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 outside outside ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ’s 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 domain domain NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 mounted mount VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 29 upon upon ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 immense immense ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 chariot chariot NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 shafts shaft VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 40 like like ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 44 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 45 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 but but CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 39 conj _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wish** | past | absence | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | absence *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **consider** | past | absence | a suitable entry | | the King's palace | | | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme entry=Attribute | | 4 | **step** | past | absence | | | the Princess's little domain | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside domain=Trajectory | | 5 | **mount** | participle | absence *not said here* | | | a immense chariot with great solid wheels | | | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon chariot=Destination | | 6 | **shaft** | present | | | | | | like the trunk of a oak tree | tree rules | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/110/) - next →: [sentence 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/112/) - ↑ back to [Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/)