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title: But Prince Featherhead, for it was he, perceiving her at the same mo… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Prince Featherhead, for it was he, perceiving her at the same moment, rushed towards her with every demonstration of joy: for he had recognised her, not as the Celandine whom he had slighted, but as the lovely Princess whom he had sought vainly for so long. Who acts: stranger, Prince Featherhead
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 158

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But Prince Featherhead, for it was he, perceiving her at the same moment, rushed towards her with every demonstration of joy: for he had recognised her, not as the Celandine whom he had slighted, but as the lovely Princess whom he had sought vainly for so long.

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**Who acts:** stranger, Prince Featherhead, Featherhead · **What happens:** perceive, rush, recognise, slight, seek, demonstrate · **To what, where:** dog, Celandine, joy

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, Prince Featherhead, Featherhead), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7277:12:158
# text = But Prince Featherhead, for it was he, perceiving her at the same moment, rushed towards her with every demonstration of joy: for he had recognised her, not as the Celandine whom he had slighted, but as the lovely Princess whom he had sought vainly for so long.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Featherhead	featherhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	perceiving	perceive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	demonstration	demonstration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl:agent	_	_
36	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	obj	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	slighted	slight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
42	as	as	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
46	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	49	obj	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
50	vainly	vainly	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	so	so	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | past · progressive | stranger | dog |  |  | moment |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 2 | **rush** | past | Prince Featherhead |  |  |  |  | towards dog; with every demonstration of joy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards she=Destination |
| 3 | **recognise** | past · perfect | Featherhead | dog |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 4 | **slight** | past · perfect | Featherhead | the Celandine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **seek** | past · perfect | Featherhead |  |  |  |  | as the lovely Princess; vainly *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent whom=Location for long=Theme |
| 6 | **demonstrate** |  |  | joy |  |  |  |  | nom demonstration «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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.

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