--- title: When the wolf-magician saw that the Prince had failed this time too,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the wolf-magician saw that the Prince had failed this time too, he transformed himself again into a mighty king, and proceeded with an even more gorgeous retinue than the first time to the Court of the Emperor. Who acts: wolf magician, Prince, magician. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/51/) [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/) / [The Golden Mermaid](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/) / 51 # The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 51 When the wolf-magician saw that the Prince had failed this time too, he transformed himself again into a mighty king, and proceeded with an even more gorgeous retinue than the first time to the Court of the Emperor. **Who acts:** wolf magician, Prince, magician · **What happens:** see, fail, transform, proceed · **To what, where:** magician · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf magician, Prince, magician), 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:pg7277:52:51 # text = When the wolf-magician saw that the Prince had failed this time too, he transformed himself again into a mighty king, and proceeded with an even more gorgeous retinue than the first time to the Court of the Emperor. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 failed fail VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 ccomp _ _ 12 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 too too ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 transformed transform VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 17 obj _ _ 19 again again ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 proceeded proceed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 parataxis _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 29 even even ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 31 gorgeous gorgeous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 retinue retinue NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 than than ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 36 amod _ _ 36 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | the wolf magician | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **fail** | past · perfect | the Prince | | | | time | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **transform** | past | magician | magician | | | again | into a mighty king *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into king=Result | | 4 | **proceed** | participle | | | | | time | with a gorgeous retinue | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent | 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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/52/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Mermaid](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/)