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title: His delight knew no bounds, and he followed her eagerly up into the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His delight knew no bounds, and he followed her eagerly up into the castle, impatient to know what strange events had brought her there. Who acts: delight, strange events, Prince. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, with its dependency
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 64

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His delight knew no bounds, and he followed her eagerly up into the castle, impatient to know what strange events had brought her there.

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**Who acts:** delight, strange events, Prince · **What happens:** know, follow, bring, delight · **To what, where:** bounds, water, castle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (delight, strange events, 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:pg7277:37:64
# text = His delight knew no bounds, and he followed her eagerly up into the castle, impatient to know what strange events had brought her there.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	bounds	bound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
21	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	ccomp	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Prince's delight | no bounds |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus |
| 2 | **follow** | past | delight | water |  | the castle |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme into castle=Trajectory |
| 3 | **know** | to-infinitive | delight *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **bring** | past · perfect | strange events |  | water | there |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme she=Destination |
| 5 | **delight** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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