--- title: To his surprise, as he was eating them, he felt his nose grow shorte… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: To his surprise, as he was eating them, he felt his nose grow shorter and shorter, and after a while he ventured to feel it with his hand, and even to look in the stream again! Who acts: mind, nose. 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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 (mind, nose), 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:pg2435:12:16 # text = To his surprise, as he was eating them, he felt his nose grow shorter and shorter, and after a while he ventured to feel it with his hand, and even to look in the stream again! 1 To to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 acl _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 16 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 xcomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 after after ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 ventured venture VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 even even ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 again again ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past · progressive | mind | nuts *= nut* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 2 | **feel** | past | mind | | | | | to mind's surprise | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | present | mind's nose | | | | | short *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **venture** | past | mind | | | | while | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **feel** | to-infinitive | mind *not said here* | nose | | | | with mind's hand | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **look** | to-infinitive | mind *not said here* | | | | again | in the stream | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in stream=Theme | | 7 | **surprise** | | mind | | | | | | nom surprise «feeling 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/17/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/)