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title: The Princess heard his puffing and roaring, and growing frightened s… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess heard his puffing and roaring, and growing frightened she cried: ‘Oh dear! the bear is after us and will certainly catch us up!’ Who acts: Princess, bear. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 49

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The Princess heard his puffing and roaring, and growing frightened she cried: ‘Oh dear! the bear is after us and will certainly catch us up!’

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**Who acts:** Princess, bear · **What happens:** hear, roar, grow, frighten, cry, be · **To what, where:** puffing, us

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, bear), 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:pg7277:51:49
# text = The Princess heard his puffing and roaring, and growing frightened she cried: ‘Oh dear! the bear is after us and will certainly catch us up!’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	puffing	puffing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
17	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the Princess | bear's puffing |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer puffing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **roar** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **frighten** | participle · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | the bear |  |  |  | after us |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **catch up** | future | the bear *not said here* | us |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 8 | **puff** |  | bear |  |  |  |  |  | nom puffing «act transitive»: 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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