--- title: The astonished Prince stepped into the boat, and, holding the wolf’s… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The astonished Prince stepped into the boat, and, holding the wolf’s tail in his hand, he steered boldly out into the open sea, where the sun was gilding the blue waves with its golden rays. Who acts: astonished Prince, mortal, sun. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mer --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/64/) [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/) / 64 # The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 64 The astonished Prince stepped into the boat, and, holding the wolf’s tail in his hand, he steered boldly out into the open sea, where the sun was gilding the blue waves with its golden rays. **Who acts:** astonished Prince, mortal, sun · **What happens:** step, hold, steer, gild, ray · **To what, where:** boat, tail, hand, open sea, blue waves 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 (astonished Prince, mortal, sun), 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:pg7277:52:64 # text = The astonished Prince stepped into the boat, and, holding the wolf’s tail in his hand, he steered boldly out into the open sea, where the sun was gilding the blue waves with its golden rays. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 astonished astonished ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’s 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 steered steer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 22 boldly boldly ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 23 out out ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 gilding gild VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 rays ray NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **step** | past | the astonished Prince | | | the boat | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination | | 2 | **hold** | gerund | the astonished Prince *not said here* | the wolf's tail | | mortal's hand | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tail=Theme in hand=Location | | 3 | **steer** | past | mortal | | | the open sea | | out *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into sea=Destination | | 4 | **gild** | past · progressive | the sun | the blue waves | | | | with sun's golden rays | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent wave=Destination with ray=Theme | | 5 | **ray** | | sun | | | | | | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/65/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Mermaid](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/)