--- title: However, she did not even hint to the Princess that Featherhead was… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: However, she did not even hint to the Princess that Featherhead was anything but absolutely perfect, and talked of him so much that when at last she announced that he was coming to visit her, Celandine made up her mind that this delightful Prince would be certain to fall in love with her at once, an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/50/) [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/) / 50 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 50 However, she did not even hint to the Princess that Featherhead was anything but absolutely perfect, and talked of him so much that when at last she announced that he was coming to visit her, Celandine made up her mind that this delightful Prince would be certain to fall in love with her at once, and was quite pleased at the idea. **Who acts:** Fairy, Featherhead, Celandine, this · **What happens:** not hint, be, talk, announce, come, visit · **To what, where:** Princess, anything, Fairy, mind, love, idea · **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 (Fairy, Featherhead, Celandine, this), 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:pg7277:12:50 # text = However, she did not even hint to the Princess that Featherhead was anything but absolutely perfect, and talked of him so much that when at last she announced that he was coming to visit her, Celandine made up her mind that this delightful Prince would be certain to fall in love with her at once, and was quite pleased at the idea. 1 However however ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 even even ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 hint hint VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 Featherhead featherhead NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 nmod _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 absolutely absolutely ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 much much ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 advcl _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 announced announce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 ccomp _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ _ 37 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 Celandine Celandine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 41 up up ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 44 that that SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 45 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 50 nsubj _ _ 46 delightful delightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 47 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 48 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 49 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 50 cop _ _ 50 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ _ 51 to to PART TO _ 52 mark _ _ 52 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 50 xcomp _ _ 53 in in ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ _ 55 with with ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 obl _ _ 57 at at ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 61 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 63 cop _ _ 62 quite quite ADV RB _ 63 advmod _ _ 63 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 conj _ _ 64 at at ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 65 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 66 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 67 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **hint** *speech: other* | past · do-support | Fairy | | the Princess | | | however *property* | vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to princess=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** | past | | anything | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | | | | | | absolutely *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **talk** | past | Fairy *not said here* | | | | | of Featherhead | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | Fairy | | | | | | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **come** | past · progressive | Featherhead | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **visit** | to-infinitive | Featherhead *not said here* | Fairy | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | | 8 | **make up** | past | Celandine | Fairy's mind | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | | 9 | **is** | would | this | | | | | certain *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **fall** | to-infinitive | this *not said here* | | | love | | with Fairy | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | | 11 | **is** | past | Celandine *not said here* | | | the idea | | pleased *property* | tree rules | | 12 | **mind** | | Fairy | | | | | | nom mind «cognition 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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/51/) - ↑ back to [Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/)