--- title: All the court looked on in dazzled surprise, while Potentilla, catch… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: All the court looked on in dazzled surprise, while Potentilla, catching sight of her lover, dropped the cup and ran joyfully to meet him. Who acts: court, Potentilla. 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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 (court, Potentilla), 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:pg7277:11:169 # text = All the court looked on in dazzled surprise, while Potentilla, catching sight of her lover, dropped the cup and ran joyfully to meet him. 1 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 3 det:predet _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 dazzled dazzle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 while while SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 Potentilla Potentilla PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 catching catch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 14 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 lover lover NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 24 joyfully joyfully ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look on** | past | all court | | | | | in dazzled surprise | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in surprise=Theme | | 2 | **dazzle** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **catch** | gerund | Potentilla | sight of Potentilla's lover | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | | 4 | **drop** | past | | the cup | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme | | 5 | **run** | past | | | | | | joyfully *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **meet** | to-infinitive | | court | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 7 | **sight** | | | Potentilla's lover | | | | | nom sight «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 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 168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/168/) - next →: [sentence 170](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/170/) - ↑ back to [Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/)