--- title: The Prince then sent out several spaniels to reconnoitre, and they h… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Prince then sent out several spaniels to reconnoitre, and they had the good luck to discover a horse laden with provisions stuck fast in the snow. Who acts: Prince, Princes, good luck. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/30/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/) / 30 # The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 30 The Prince then sent out several spaniels to reconnoitre, and they had the good luck to discover a horse laden with provisions stuck fast in the snow. **Who acts:** Prince, Princes, good luck · **What happens:** send out, reconnoitre, have, discover, lade, stick · **To what, where:** several spaniels, good luck, horse, provisions, snow This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Princes, good luck), 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:pg7277:17:30 # text = The Prince then sent out several spaniels to reconnoitre, and they had the good luck to discover a horse laden with provisions stuck fast in the snow. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 4 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 spaniels spaniel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 reconnoitre reconnoitre VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 discover discover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 laden lade VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 provisions provision NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 24 stuck stick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 25 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send out** | past | the Prince | several spaniels | | | then | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spaniel=Theme | | 2 | **reconnoitre** | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | past | Princes *= prince* | the good luck | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **discover** | to-infinitive | the good luck *not said here* | a horse | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic | | 5 | **lade** | participle | | a horse *not said here* | | | | with provisions | tree rules | | 6 | **stick** | participle | | provisions *not said here* | | the snow | | fast *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in snow=Destination | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/31/) - ↑ back to [Heart of Ice, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/)