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title: The Prince turned sharply round and to his horror saw a huge Giant a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince turned sharply round and to his horror saw a huge Giant approaching with mighty strides, crying fiercely-- Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 38

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The Prince turned sharply round and to his horror saw a huge Giant approaching with mighty strides, crying fiercely--

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** turn, see, approach, cry

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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), 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:pg7277:37:38
# text = The Prince turned sharply round and to his horror saw a huge Giant approaching with mighty strides, crying fiercely--
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sharply	sharply	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	round	round	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
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	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	strides	stride	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
20	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  | round, sharply *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Prince's horror; huge *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **approach** | gerund | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with mighty strides | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with stride=Instrument |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fiercely *property* | 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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