--- title: He went to the Princess suddenly, and announced that he was most unw… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He went to the Princess suddenly, and announced that he was most unwillingly forced to leave her, and had come to bid her farewell. Who acts: enchanter. 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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), 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:pg7277:11:99 # text = He went to the Princess suddenly, and announced that he was most unwillingly forced to leave her, and had come to bid her farewell. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 announced announce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 13 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 14 advmod _ _ 14 unwillingly unwillingly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 ccomp _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 bid bid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 farewell farewell NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | enchanter | | | | | to the Princess; suddenly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to princess=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | enchanter *not said here* | | | | | | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **force** | past · passive | | enchanter | | | | unwillingly *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **leave** | to-infinitive | enchanter *not said here* | Princess | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 5 | **come** | past · perfect | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **bid** | to-infinitive | | Princess's farewell | | | | | 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 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/100/) - ↑ back to [Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/)