--- title: The King and Queen were only too delighted to have this charming Pri… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King and Queen were only too delighted to have this charming Princess to supply the place of Prince Featherhead, whom they saw but seldom, since the Fairy had provided him with a palace in the neighbouring town, where he lived in the greatest luxury, and did nothing but amuse himself from mornin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/40/) [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/) / 40 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 40 The King and Queen were only too delighted to have this charming Princess to supply the place of Prince Featherhead, whom they saw but seldom, since the Fairy had provided him with a palace in the neighbouring town, where he lived in the greatest luxury, and did nothing but amuse himself from morning to night. **Who acts:** King, Fairy, Featherhead · **What happens:** be, have, charm, supply, see, provide · **To what, where:** charming Princess, place, Featherhead, greatest luxury, nothing 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, Fairy, Featherhead), 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:pg7277:12:40 # text = The King and Queen were only too delighted to have this charming Princess to supply the place of Prince Featherhead, whom they saw but seldom, since the Fairy had provided him with a palace in the neighbouring town, where he lived in the greatest luxury, and did nothing but amuse himself from morning to night. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 too too ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 11 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 12 charming charm VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 amod _ _ 13 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 supply supply VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Featherhead featherhead NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 obj _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 26 seldom seldom ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 since since SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 provided provide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 conj _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 iobj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 neighbouring neighbour VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 amod _ _ 40 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 44 advmod _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 48 amod _ _ 48 luxury luxury NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 52 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 51 obj _ _ 53 but but CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 amuse amuse VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 conj _ _ 55 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 54 obj _ _ 56 from from ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ _ 58 to to ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the King and Queen | | | | | delighted *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | the King and Queen *not said here* | this charming Princess | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | | 3 | **charm** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **supply** | to-infinitive | the King and Queen *not said here* | the place of Prince Featherhead | | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Recipient | | 5 | **see** | past | King | the place of Prince Featherhead | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | | 6 | **provide** | past · perfect | the Fairy | | Featherhead | | | with a palace in the neighbouring town; seldom *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with palace=Theme | | 7 | **neighbour** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **live** | past | Featherhead | | | the greatest luxury | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in luxury=Location | | 9 | **do** | past | the King and Queen *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | | 10 | **amuse** | present | the King and Queen *not said here* | Featherhead | | | morning; night | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | 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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/41/) - ↑ back to [Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/)