--- title: The Enchanter held his club close to the Princess’s charming little… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Enchanter held his club close to the Princess’s charming little nose, whereupon she woke up and shrieked with terror at finding herself in a strange place with the detested Grumedan. Who acts: Enchanter, Princess. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Enchanter, 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:pg7277:11:152 # text = The Enchanter held his club close to the Princess’s charming little nose, whereupon she woke up and shrieked with terror at finding herself in a strange place with the detested Grumedan. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Enchanter Enchanter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’s 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 charming charm VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 amod _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 whereupon whereupon ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 woke wake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 shrieked shriek VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 at at SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 25 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 24 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 detested detest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 33 Grumedan Grumedan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | past | the Enchanter | Orion's club | | | | close *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme | | 2 | **charm** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **wake up** | past | Princess | | | | | whereupon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **shriek** | participle | Princess *not said here* | | | | | with terror | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with terror=Theme | | 5 | **find** | gerund | Princess *not said here* | Princess | | a strange place with the detested Grumedan | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | | 6 | **detest** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | 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 151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/151/) - next →: [sentence 153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/153/) - ↑ back to [Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/)