--- title: So saying, she opened the window, and catching up the little Prince,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So saying, she opened the window, and catching up the little Prince, cradle and all, she glided away in the air as if she were skating upon ice, leaving the King and Queen in the greatest affliction. Who acts: task. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1, with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/14/27/) [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/) / [Heart of Ice, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/14/) / 27 # The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 27 So saying, she opened the window, and catching up the little Prince, cradle and all, she glided away in the air as if she were skating upon ice, leaving the King and Queen in the greatest affliction. **Who acts:** task · **What happens:** say, open, catch up, glide away, skate, leave · **To what, where:** window, little Prince, air, King, greatest affliction · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (task), 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:pg7277:14:27 # text = So saying, she opened the window, and catching up the little Prince, cradle and all, she glided away in the air as if she were skating upon ice, leaving the King and Queen in the greatest affliction. 1 So so ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 catching catch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 cradle cradle NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 glided glide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 away away ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 as as SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 skating skate VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 31 upon upon ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 42 amod _ _ 42 affliction affliction NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **open** | past | task | the window | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme | | 3 | **catch up** | gerund | | the little Prince | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | | 4 | **glide away** | past | task | | | the air | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory | | 5 | **skate** | past · progressive | task | | | | | upon ice | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **leave** | gerund | task *not said here* | the King and Queen | | the greatest affliction | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent king=Theme in affliction=Location | 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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/14/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/14/28/) - ↑ back to [Heart of Ice, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/14/)