--- title: More surprised than ever, the Princess asked to be allowed to see th… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: More surprised than ever, the Princess asked to be allowed to see the portrait, and after examining it for a few minutes returned it, remarking shyly that at least the original had every cause to be satisfied with it. Who acts: Princess. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Fe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/78/) [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/) / 78 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 78 More surprised than ever, the Princess asked to be allowed to see the portrait, and after examining it for a few minutes returned it, remarking shyly that at least the original had every cause to be satisfied with it. **Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** ask, allow, see, examine, return, remark · **To what, where:** portrait, cause, least · **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 (Princess), 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:pg7277:12:78 # text = More surprised than ever, the Princess asked to be allowed to see the portrait, and after examining it for a few minutes returned it, remarking shyly that at least the original had every cause to be satisfied with it. 1 More more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ _ 2 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 than than ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 ccomp _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 portrait portrait NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 18 after after SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 examining examine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 25 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 remarking remark VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 29 shyly shyly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 obl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 original original NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 36 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 37 det _ _ 37 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 cop _ _ 40 satisfied satisfied ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 acl _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Princess | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **allow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | | | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | the portrait | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer portrait=Stimulus | | 4 | **examine** | gerund | | portrait | | | minute | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **return** | past | the Princess *not said here* | portrait | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **remark** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | shyly *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **have** | past | the Princess *not said here* | every cause | | least | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient | | 8 | **is** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | every cause *not said here* | | | | with lovely original *= original*; satisfied *property* | tree rules | 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 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/79/) - ↑ back to [Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/)