--- title: They were lucky enough to escape the soldiers of King Bruin, and at… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They were lucky enough to escape the soldiers of King Bruin, and at last, after unheard-of fatigues and adventures, they found themselves in a charming green valley, through which flowed a stream clear as crystal and overshadowed by beautiful trees. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Boo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/4/) [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/) / 4 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 4 They were lucky enough to escape the soldiers of King Bruin, and at last, after unheard-of fatigues and adventures, they found themselves in a charming green valley, through which flowed a stream clear as crystal and overshadowed by beautiful trees. **Who acts:** King · **What happens:** be, escape, find, flow, overshadow · **To what, where:** soldiers, King, charming green valley, stream 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 (King), 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:pg7277:12:4 # text = They were lucky enough to escape the soldiers of King Bruin, and at last, after unheard-of fatigues and adventures, they found themselves in a charming green valley, through which flowed a stream clear as crystal and overshadowed by beautiful trees. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 enough enough ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Bruin Bruin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 after after ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 unheard unheard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 fatigues fatigue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 adventures adventure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 27 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 26 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 charming charming NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 31 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 valley valley NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 through through ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 flowed flow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 40 as as ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 crystal crystal NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 overshadowed overshadow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 conj _ _ 44 by by ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | King | | | | | enough, lucky *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **escape** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | the soldiers of King Bruin | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme soldier=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **be** | | King *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **find** | past | King | King | | a charming green valley | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | | 5 | **flow** | past | | a stream | | | | as crystal; clear *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stream=Theme | | 6 | **overshadow** | participle | | | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/5/) - ↑ back to [Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/)