--- title: He was the most beautiful of all spaniels, with a look of sadness in… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He was the most beautiful of all spaniels, with a look of sadness in his large eyes, which, however, quite disappeared as he sprang up to welcome Prince Mannikin with every demonstration of delight; after which he made a sign to his courtiers, who came one by one to pay their respects to the visitor --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/14/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/) / 14 # The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 14 He was the most beautiful of all spaniels, with a look of sadness in his large eyes, which, however, quite disappeared as he sprang up to welcome Prince Mannikin with every demonstration of delight; after which he made a sign to his courtiers, who came one by one to pay their respects to the visitor. **Who acts:** Prince, courtiers · **What happens:** be, spring up, welcome, make, come, pay · **To what, where:** Mannikin, sign, one, respects, delight This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, courtiers), 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:pg7277:15:14 # text = He was the most beautiful of all spaniels, with a look of sadness in his large eyes, which, however, quite disappeared as he sprang up to welcome Prince Mannikin with every demonstration of delight; after which he made a sign to his courtiers, who came one by one to pay their respects to the visitor. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 5 advmod _ _ 5 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 spaniels spaniel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 sadness sadness NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 however however ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 quite quite ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 disappeared disappeared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 26 as as SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 welcome welcome VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 32 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:desc _ _ 33 Mannikin Mannikin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 36 demonstration demonstration NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 delight delight NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 after after ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 obl _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 courtiers courtier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 51 nsubj _ _ 51 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 acl:relcl _ _ 52 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 51 obj _ _ 53 by by ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 52 nmod _ _ 55 to to PART TO _ 56 mark _ _ 56 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 advcl _ _ 57 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 58 nmod:poss _ _ 58 respects respects NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 obj _ _ 59 to to ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 visitor visitor NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Prince | | | | | of all spaniels in Prince's large eyes; beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **spring up** | past | Prince | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **welcome** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | Mannikin Prince | | | | with every demonstration of delight | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mannikin=Theme | | 4 | **make** | past | Prince | a sign | | | | to Prince's courtiers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product | | 5 | **come** | past | Prince's courtiers | one | | | | by one | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | | 6 | **pay** | to-infinitive | Prince's courtiers *not said here* | spaniels's respects | | | | to the visitor | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=Asset | | 7 | **demonstrate** | | | delight | | | | | nom demonstration «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/15/) - ↑ back to [Heart of Ice, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/)