--- title: The Prince thought they had better find their way to the Fairy of th… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Prince thought they had better find their way to the Fairy of the Beech-Woods and put themselves once more under her protection, and they had hardly agreed upon this course when two little chariots wreathed with jasmine and honeysuckle suddenly appeared, and, stepping into them, they were whirle --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/188/) [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 Featherhead and the Princess Ce…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/) / 188 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 188 The Prince thought they had better find their way to the Fairy of the Beech-Woods and put themselves once more under her protection, and they had hardly agreed upon this course when two little chariots wreathed with jasmine and honeysuckle suddenly appeared, and, stepping into them, they were whirled away to the Leafy Palace. **Who acts:** Prince, lamentations, two little chariots, love · **What happens:** think, have, find, put, agree, wreathe · **To what, where:** way, lamentations, protection · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Prince, lamentations, two little chariots, love), 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:pg7277:12:188 # text = The Prince thought they had better find their way to the Fairy of the Beech-Woods and put themselves once more under her protection, and they had hardly agreed upon this course when two little chariots wreathed with jasmine and honeysuckle suddenly appeared, and, stepping into them, they were whirled away to the Leafy Palace. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 xcomp _ _ 7 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 Beech Beech PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Woods Woods PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 20 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 19 obj _ _ 21 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 22 advmod _ _ 22 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ _ 23 under under ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 protection protection NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 agreed agree VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 32 upon upon ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 det _ _ 34 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 36 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 37 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 chariots chariot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 wreathed wreathe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 jasmine jasmine NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 honeysuckle honeysuckle NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ _ 44 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 stepping step VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 55 csubj:pass _ _ 50 into into ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 53 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 54 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 55 aux:pass _ _ 55 whirled whirl VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 conj _ _ 56 away away ADV RB _ 55 advmod _ _ 57 to to ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 59 Leafy Leafy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 60 compound _ _ 60 Palace Palace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Prince | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **have** | past | lamentations *= lamentation* | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **find** | infinitive | lamentations *= lamentation* *not said here* | lamentations's way | | | | to the Fairy of the Beech Woods | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 4 | **put** | infinitive | lamentations *= lamentation* *not said here* | lamentations *= lamentation* | | love's protection | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme under protection=Destination | | 5 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past · perfect | lamentations *= lamentation* | | | | | upon this course; hardly *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **wreathe** | participle | two little chariots | | | | | with jasmine and honeysuckle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jasmine=Theme | | 7 | **appear** | past | two little chariots *not said here* | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **step** | gerund | | | | | | into chariots *= chariot* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into they=Destination | | 9 | **whirl** | past · passive | | lamentations *= lamentation* | | | | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 10 | **protect** | | love | | | | | | nom protection «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 187](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/187/) - next →: [sentence 189](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/189/) - ↑ back to [Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/)