--- title: But while the Princess was driving over a bridge the carriage sudden… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But while the Princess was driving over a bridge the carriage suddenly stood still, and the coachman turned round to her and said, ‘Your deliverer has gone, and doesn’t thank you for your gratitude. Who acts: Princess, coachman, deliverer. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Thr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/56/33/) [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 Three Dogs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/56/) / 33 # The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 33 But while the Princess was driving over a bridge the carriage suddenly stood still, and the coachman turned round to her and said, ‘Your deliverer has gone, and doesn’t thank you for your gratitude. **Who acts:** Princess, coachman, deliverer · **What happens:** drive, stand, turn round, say, ‘, go · **To what, where:** carriage, bridge, Princess, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, coachman, deliverer), 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:pg7277:56:33 # text = But while the Princess was driving over a bridge the carriage suddenly stood still, and the coachman turned round to her and said, ‘Your deliverer has gone, and doesn’t thank you for your gratitude. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 2 while while SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 driving drive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 7 over over ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 carriage carriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 12 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 still still ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 coachman coachman NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 20 round round ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 ‘ ‘ VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 deliverer deliverer NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 34 n’t n't AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 thank thank VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 gratitude gratitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drive** | past · progressive | the Princess | the carriage | | a bridge | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme over bridge=Trajectory | | 2 | **stand** | past | | | | | still | suddenly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **turn round** | past | the coachman | | Princess | | | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the coachman *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **‘** | infinitive | the coachman *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | present · perfect | Your deliverer | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **thank** *speech: thank* | present · do-support | | | you | | | for your gratitude | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for gratitude=Attribute | 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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/56/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/56/34/) - ↑ back to [The Three Dogs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/56/)