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title: The Prince sprang to his feet, hardly able to refrain from telling h… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 86

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The Prince sprang to his feet, hardly able to refrain from telling her that she must be blinded by vanity to suppose she resembled the lovely portrait even in the slightest degree; and after gazing at her for an instant with icy surprise, turned and left her without another word, and in a few hours quitted the Leafy Palace altogether.

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**Who acts:** Prince, vanity, Pray · **What happens:** spring, refrain, tell, blind, suppose, resemble · **To what, where:** feet, Pray, lovely portrait, slightest degree, Leafy Palace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Prince, vanity, Pray), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7277:12:86
# text = The Prince sprang to his feet, hardly able to refrain from telling her that she must be blinded by vanity to suppose she resembled the lovely portrait even in the slightest degree; and after gazing at her for an instant with icy surprise, turned and left her without another word, and in a few hours quitted the Leafy Palace altogether.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	refrain	refrain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	blinded	blind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	resembled	resemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	slightest	slight	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	_
33	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
36	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	advcl	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
47	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	conj	_	_
50	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	without	without	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	53	det	_	_
53	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	obl	_	_
60	quitted	quitt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
62	Leafy	Leafy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	63	compound	_	_
63	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	_
64	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past | the Prince |  |  | Prince's feet |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination |
| 2 | **refrain** | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Prince *not said here* |  | Pray |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **blind** | must · passive | vanity | Pray |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **suppose** | to-infinitive | vanity *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **resemble** | past | Pray | the lovely portrait |  | the slightest degree |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **gaze** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at Pray; for a instant; with icy surprise | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
| 8 | **turn** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **leave** | past |  | Pray |  |  |  | without another word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 10 | **quitt** | past | the Prince *not said here* | the Leafy Palace |  |  | hour | altogether *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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.

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