--- title: Then the Princess felt moved to stroke the swan, at the same time ad… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Princess felt moved to stroke the swan, at the same time admiring its plumage. Who acts: Princess, same time. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/23/66/) [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/) / [The Magic Swan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/23/) / 66 # The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 66 Then the Princess felt moved to stroke the swan, at the same time admiring its plumage. **Who acts:** Princess, same time · **What happens:** feel, move, stroke, admire · **To what, where:** swan, plumage This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, same time), 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:pg7277:23:66 # text = Then the Princess felt moved to stroke the swan, at the same time admiring its plumage. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 moved move VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 xcomp _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 stroke stroke VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 swan swan NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 admiring admire VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 plumage plumage NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past | the Princess | | | | then | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **move** | participle | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stroke** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | the swan | | | time | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swan=Experiencer | | 4 | **admire** | gerund | the same time *not said here* | merriment's plumage | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plumage=Stimulus | 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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/23/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/23/67/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Swan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/23/)