--- title: After his long imprisonment at sea the Prince was delighted with the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: After his long imprisonment at sea the Prince was delighted with the sight of the great trees which grew down to the very edge of the water, and leaping lightly on shore he speedily lost himself in the thick forest. Who acts: Prince, great trees. 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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, great trees), 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:pg7277:37:26 # text = After his long imprisonment at sea the Prince was delighted with the sight of the great trees which grew down to the very edge of the water, and leaping lightly on shore he speedily lost himself in the thick forest. 1 After after ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 imprisonment imprisonment NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 down down ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 very very ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 leaping leap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 31 lightly lightly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 speedily speedily ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 36 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the Prince | | | | after Prince's long imprisonment at sea | with the sight of the great trees; delighted *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **grow down** | past | the great trees | | | | | to the edge of the water; down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **leap** | gerund | the Prince *not said here* | | | shore | | lightly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Trajectory | | 4 | **lose** | past | Prince | Prince | | the thick forest | | speedily *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Eventuality | | 5 | **imprison** | | Prince | | | sea | | | nom imprisonment «act transitive»: poss=agent at=place | | 6 | **sight** | | | the great trees | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/37/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/37/27/) - ↑ back to [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/37/)