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title: The Princess in the woods, always running, always listening, pursuin… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess in the woods, always running, always listening, pursuing hotly after two creatures which seemed to her very hard to catch, which she yet never ceased from pursuing. Who acts: Princess, two creatures. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Pla
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 10

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The Princess in the woods, always running, always listening, pursuing hotly after two creatures which seemed to her very hard to catch, which she yet never ceased from pursuing.

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**Who acts:** Princess, two creatures · **What happens:** run, listen, pursue, seem, catch, not cease · **To what, where:** pursuing

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, two creatures), 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:pg7277:39:10
# text = The Princess in the woods, always running, always listening, pursuing hotly after two creatures which seemed to her very hard to catch, which she yet never ceased from pursuing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pursuing	pursue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
14	hotly	hotly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	pursuing	pursuing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund | the Princess in the woods |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **listen** | gerund | the Princess in the woods *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pursue** | gerund | the Princess in the woods *not said here* |  |  |  | after two creatures | hotly *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after creature=Theme |
| 4 | **seem** | past | two creatures |  |  |  |  | to Princess's hard | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **catch** | to-infinitive | two creatures *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **cease** | participle · passive |  |  |  | pursuing | yet |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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