--- title: The Prince in great astonishment leapt to his feet, and had just tim… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Prince in great astonishment leapt to his feet, and had just time to draw his sword before he found himself face to face with a large green lion which had been hotly pursuing the poor little gazelle. Who acts: Prince, large green lion. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/37/30/) [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/) / [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/37/) / 30 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 30 The Prince in great astonishment leapt to his feet, and had just time to draw his sword before he found himself face to face with a large green lion which had been hotly pursuing the poor little gazelle. **Who acts:** Prince, large green lion · **What happens:** have, draw, find, pursue · **To what, where:** sword, Prince, poor little gazelle 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, large green lion), 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:pg7277:37:30 # text = The Prince in great astonishment leapt to his feet, and had just time to draw his sword before he found himself face to face with a large green lion which had been hotly pursuing the poor little gazelle. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 astonishment astonishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 leapt leapt NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 just just ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 before before SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 22 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obj _ _ 23 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 33 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 aux _ _ 34 hotly hotly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 pursuing pursue VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 acl:relcl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 gazelle gazelle NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | | | | | time | | tree rules | | 2 | **draw** | to-infinitive | | Prince's sword | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | | 3 | **find** | past | Prince | Prince | | | | with a large green lion | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme face=Attribute | | 4 | **pursue** | past · perfect · progressive | a large green lion | the poor little gazelle | | | | hotly *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gazelle=Theme | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/37/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/37/31/) - ↑ back to [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/37/)