--- title: When the Prince did not return, poor Hyacinthia wept bitterly and ch… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the Prince did not return, poor Hyacinthia wept bitterly and changing herself from a milestone into a little blue field flower, she said, ‘I will grow here on the wayside till some passer-by tramples me under foot.’ Who acts: Prince, poor Hyacinthia, pursuit, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, poor Hyacinthia, pursuit, I), 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:pg7277:28:77 # text = When the Prince did not return, poor Hyacinthia wept bitterly and changing herself from a milestone into a little blue field flower, she said, ‘I will grow here on the wayside till some passer-by tramples me under foot.’ 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Hyacinthia Hyacinthia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 bitterly bitterly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 conj _ _ 14 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 13 obj _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 milestone milestone NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 20 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 21 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 32 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 wayside wayside NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 till till SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 37 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 41 det _ _ 38 passer passer NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 by by ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 tramples trample NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 42 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 under under ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **return** | past · do-support | the Prince | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **weep** | past | poor Hyacinthia | | | | | bitterly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **change** | gerund | poor Hyacinthia *not said here* | pursuit | | a milestone | | into a little blue field flower *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient from milestone=Initial\_State into flower=Result | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | pursuit | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **grow** | future | I | | | the wayside; here | | by some tramples; under foot | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wayside=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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/28/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/28/78/) - ↑ back to [The Biter Bit, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/28/)