--- title: King Gridelin had no sooner set eyes upon the lady than with a cry o… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: King Gridelin had no sooner set eyes upon the lady than with a cry of joy he clasped her in his arms, for it was no other than his long-lost wife, Santorina, about whose imprisonment in Fairyland you may perhaps read some day. Who acts: King, joy, you, long lost wife. 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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 (King, joy, you, long lost wife), 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:pg7277:39:21 # text = King Gridelin had no sooner set eyes upon the lady than with a cry of joy he clasped her in his arms, for it was no other than his long-lost wife, Santorina, about whose imprisonment in Fairyland you may perhaps read some day. 1 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Gridelin Gridelin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 5 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 6 set set ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 8 upon upon ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 than than ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 clasped clasp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 28 det _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 29 than than ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 31 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 amod _ _ 34 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 Santorina Santorina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 about about ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 imprisonment imprisonment NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 Fairyland Fairyland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 44 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 45 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 parataxis _ _ 47 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 48 det _ _ 48 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | King | no set eyes | | | | upon the lady than a cry of joy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 2 | **clasp** | past | King | Bird | | King's arms | | | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | joy | | | | | than King's long lost wife and King's long lost wife and long lost wife's imprisonment in Fairyland's imprisonment in Fairyland; other *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **read** | may | you | | | | day | perhaps *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **cry** | | joy | | | | | | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent | | 7 | **imprison** | | King's long lost wife and King's long lost wife and imprisonment in Fairyland's imprisonment in Fairyland | | | Fairyland | | | nom imprisonment «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place | 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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/39/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/39/22/) - ↑ back to [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/39/)