--- title: But after all he had to wait for the Princess’s story, for the inhab… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But after all he had to wait for the Princess’s story, for the inhabitants of the Green Lands, hearing that the Giant was dead, ran to offer the kingdom to his vanquisher, and Prince Vivien had to listen to various complimentary harangues, which took a great deal of time, though he cut them as short --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/37/65/) [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/) / 65 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 65 But after all he had to wait for the Princess’s story, for the inhabitants of the Green Lands, hearing that the Giant was dead, ran to offer the kingdom to his vanquisher, and Prince Vivien had to listen to various complimentary harangues, which took a great deal of time, though he cut them as short as politeness allowed--if not shorter. **Who acts:** Prince, hearing, Vivien, various complimentary harangues · **What happens:** have, wait, hear, be, run, offer · **To what, where:** kingdom, vanquisher, various complimentary harangues, great deal, harangues, time 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, hearing, Vivien, various complimentary harangues), 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:pg7277:37:65 # text = But after all he had to wait for the Princess’s story, for the inhabitants of the Green Lands, hearing that the Giant was dead, ran to offer the kingdom to his vanquisher, and Prince Vivien had to listen to various complimentary harangues, which took a great deal of time, though he cut them as short as politeness allowed--if not shorter. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 after after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ’s 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 Green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 Lands Land PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 hearing hear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 csubj _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 vanquisher vanquisher NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod:desc _ _ 40 Vivien Vivien PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 various various ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 46 complimentary complimentary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 harangues harangue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 50 nsubj _ _ 50 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 parataxis _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 52 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obj _ _ 54 of of ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 57 though though SCONJ IN _ 59 mark _ _ 58 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 59 nsubj _ _ 59 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 conj _ _ 60 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 59 obj _ _ 61 as as ADV RB _ 62 advmod _ _ 62 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 xcomp _ _ 63 as as ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 64 politeness politeness NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obl _ _ 65 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 62 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 -- -- PUNCT , _ 69 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 67 if if SCONJ IN _ 69 mark _ _ 68 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 69 advmod _ _ 69 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 65 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Prince | | | | after all | | tree rules | | 2 | **wait** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | | | | | for the Princess's story; for the inhabitants of the Green Lands | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **hear** | gerund | | | | | | giant *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | past | hearing | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **run** | past | | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **offer** | to-infinitive | | the kingdom | | | | to Prince's vanquisher *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme to vanquisher=Goal | | 7 | **have** | past | Vivien Prince | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **listen** | to-infinitive | Vivien Prince *not said here* | various complimentary harangues | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **take** | past | various complimentary harangues | a great deal of time | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Theme | | 10 | **cut** | past | Prince | harangues *= harangue* | | | | short *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product | | 11 | **allow** | participle | Prince *not said here* | | | | | short *property* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 12 | **deal** | | | time | | | | | nom deal «act 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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/37/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/37/66/) - ↑ back to [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/37/)