--- title: Once outside she mounted her chariot and flew straight away to the N… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Once outside she mounted her chariot and flew straight away to the North Pole, where she shut up her stolen treasure on the summit of the Ice Mountain, and surrounded it with so many difficulties that she felt quite easy about its remaining there as long as the Princess lived, and then she went home --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/67/) [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/) / 67 # The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 67 Once outside she mounted her chariot and flew straight away to the North Pole, where she shut up her stolen treasure on the summit of the Ice Mountain, and surrounded it with so many difficulties that she felt quite easy about its remaining there as long as the Princess lived, and then she went home, chuckling at her success. **Who acts:** Queen, chariot, Princess · **What happens:** mount, fly, shut up, steal, surround, feel · **To what, where:** chariot, stolen treasure, summit, many difficulties, success 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 (Queen, chariot, 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:pg7277:15:67 # text = Once outside she mounted her chariot and flew straight away to the North Pole, where she shut up her stolen treasure on the summit of the Ice Mountain, and surrounded it with so many difficulties that she felt quite easy about its remaining there as long as the Princess lived, and then she went home, chuckling at her success. 1 Once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 2 advmod _ _ 2 outside outside ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 mounted mount VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 chariot chariot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 straight straight ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Pole Pole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 18 advmod _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 shut shut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 summit summit NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 Ice Ice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 Mountain Mountain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 difficulties difficulty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl:agent _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 41 quite quite ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ _ 43 about about SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 44 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 remaining remain VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 advcl _ _ 46 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 45 advmod _ _ 47 as as ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 45 advmod _ _ 49 as as SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 52 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 55 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 57 advmod _ _ 56 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 57 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 58 home home ADV RB _ 57 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 60 chuckling chuckle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 57 advcl _ _ 61 at at ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 63 nmod:poss _ _ 63 success success NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 64 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mount** | past | Queen | Queen's chariot | | | | outside *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Patient | | 2 | **fly** | past | Queen *not said here* | | | | | to the North Pole *result*; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to pole=Result | | 3 | **shut up** | past | Queen | Queen's stolen treasure | | the summit of the Ice Mountain | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Patient | | 4 | **steal** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **surround** | participle | | chariot | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | | 6 | **feel** | past | Queen | many difficulties *not said here* | | | | easy *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Theme | | 7 | **remain** | gerund | chariot | | | there | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **live** | past | the Princess | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **go** | past | Queen | | | | then | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **chuckle** | gerund | Queen *not said here* | | | Queen's success | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **treasure** | | Queen | | | | | | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/68/) - ↑ back to [Heart of Ice, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/)