--- title: At the sight of it all the slaves fell upon their knees and hid thei… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At the sight of it all the slaves fell upon their knees and hid their faces, and when it had three times flapped its mighty wings it uttered distinctly in Prince Vivien’s own language the words: Who acts: slaves, impatience. 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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 (slaves, impatience), 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:pg7277:37:6 # text = At the sight of it all the slaves fell upon their knees and hid their faces, and when it had three times flapped its mighty wings it uttered distinctly in Prince Vivien’s own language the words: 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nmod _ _ 6 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 8 det:predet _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 slaves slave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 upon upon ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 22 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 flapped flap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 uttered utter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 30 distinctly distinctly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 32 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:desc _ _ 33 Vivien Vivien PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’s 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past | all slaves | | | the sight of impatience | | upon slaves's knees | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at sight=Location | | 2 | **hide** | past | all slaves *not said here* | slaves's faces | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | | 3 | **have** | past | impatience | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **flap** | past | all slaves *not said here* | impatience's mighty wings | | | time | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | | 5 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | impatience | | | Vivien Prince's own language and the words | | distinctly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **sight** | | | impatience | | | | | 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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/37/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/37/7/) - ↑ back to [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/37/)