---
title: At last she found an opportunity of asking him the name of the Princ… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last she found an opportunity of asking him the name of the Princess whose picture he carried about with him always. Who acts: Judge, opportunity, Featherhead. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, with its dependency tree and the prag
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/71/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 71

# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 71

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
At last she found an opportunity of asking him the name of the Princess whose picture he carried about with him always.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Judge, opportunity, Featherhead · **What happens:** find, ask, carry, name · **To what, where:** opportunity, last, name, Featherhead, picture, Princess

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Judge, opportunity, Featherhead), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg7277:12:71
# text = At last she found an opportunity of asking him the name of the Princess whose picture he carried about with him always.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
22	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Judge | a opportunity |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme at last=Asset |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | a opportunity *not said here* | the name of the Princess  the name of the Princess  the name's picture's picture | Featherhead |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | past | Featherhead | the name of the Princess  the name of the Princess  picture's picture's picture *not said here* |  |  |  | with message; about, always *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | the Princess |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/70/)
- next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/72/)
- ↑ back to [Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/)