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title: The Prince, without the smallest hesitation, snatched up a great sto… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 71

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The Prince, without the smallest hesitation, snatched up a great stone, and hammered vigorously upon the bell, which gave forth a deep and terrible sound, the gate flew open, and closed again with a thundering clang the moment the Prince had passed through it, while from every tower and battlement rose a wheeling, screaming crowd of bats which darkened the whole sky with their multitudes.

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**Who acts:** smallest hesitation, bell, gate, crowd · **What happens:** snatch up, hammer, give, fly, close, pass · **To what, where:** great stone, deep sound, moment, bell, wheeling, tower

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smallest hesitation, bell, gate, crowd), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7277:36:71
# text = The Prince, without the smallest hesitation, snatched up a great stone, and hammered vigorously upon the bell, which gave forth a deep and terrible sound, the gate flew open, and closed again with a thundering clang the moment the Prince had passed through it, while from every tower and battlement rose a wheeling, screaming crowd of bats which darkened the whole sky with their multitudes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	snatched	snatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hammered	hammer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	vigorously	vigorously	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
34	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	_
38	again	again	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	thundering	thundering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	clang	clang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	appos	_	_
47	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	advcl	_	_
49	through	through	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
52	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
53	from	from	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	55	det	_	_
55	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	battlement	battlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	_
58	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	wheeling	wheeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
62	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	58	advcl	_	_
63	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	nmod	_	_
66	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	67	nsubj	_	_
67	darkened	darken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	acl:relcl	_	_
68	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
69	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	70	amod	_	_
70	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obj	_	_
71	with	with	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
72	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	73	nmod:poss	_	_
73	multitudes	multitude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	67	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snatch up** | participle | the smallest hesitation *not said here* | a great stone |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hammer** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upon the bell; vigorously *property* | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | the bell | a deep sound |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme |
| 4 | **fly** | past | the gate |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **close** | participle | the gate *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive |  | the moment |  | bell |  | with a thundering clang | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme through it=Destination |
| 7 | **rise** | past |  | a wheeling |  | every tower and battlement |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient wheeling=Extent from tower=Initial\_State |
| 8 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund |  | crowd of bats |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowd=Topic |
| 9 | **darken** | past | crowd of bats | the whole sky |  |  |  | with gates's multitudes | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sky=Patient with multitude=Instrument |

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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.

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**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.

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