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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 27

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When he had wandered a long way he stopped to rest beside a clear spring of water, but scarcely had he thrown himself down upon the mossy bank when there was a great rustling in the bushes close by, and out sprang a pretty little gazelle panting and exhausted, which fell at his feet gasping out--

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**Who acts:** Prince, great rustling, bushes, pretty little gazelle panting · **What happens:** wander, stop, rest, throw down, be, close · **To what, where:** long way, Prince, mossy bank, great rustling, pretty little gazelle panting, feet

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. 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 rustling, bushes, pretty little gazelle panting), 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:pg7277:37:27
# text = When he had wandered a long way he stopped to rest beside a clear spring of water, but scarcely had he thrown himself down upon the mossy bank when there was a great rustling in the bushes close by, and out sprang a pretty little gazelle panting and exhausted, which fell at his feet gasping out--
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	wandered	wander	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
24	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	mossy	mossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	rustling	rustling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	close	close	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	out	out	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	sprang	spring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
46	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
47	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
48	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	panting	panting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	54	nsubj	_	_
54	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	conj	_	_
55	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl	_	_
58	gasping	gasp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	54	advcl	_	_
59	out	out	ADP	RP	_	58	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past · perfect | Prince | a long way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | past | Prince | a long way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  | spring |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **throw down** | past · perfect | Prince | Prince |  | the mossy bank |  | scarcely *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon bank=Destination |
| 5 | **be** | past | a great rustling |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **close** | present | the bushes | a great rustling *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rustling=Patient |
| 7 | **spring** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | a pretty little gazelle panting |  |  |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location panting=Theme |
| 8 | **exhaust** | past | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **fall** | past | a pretty little gazelle panting |  |  | Prince's feet |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location |
| 10 | **gasp out** | gerund | a pretty little gazelle panting *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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