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title: He looked round still for something to wish for, and when he saw tha… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He looked round still for something to wish for, and when he saw that in spite of the water he poured on his grass the rays of the sun scorched it, and that in spite of the umbrella held over his head each day his face grew browner and browner, he cried in his anger: “The sun is mightier than I; oh,
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 16

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He looked round still for something to wish for, and when he saw that in spite of the water he poured on his grass the rays of the sun scorched it, and that in spite of the umbrella held over his head each day his face grew browner and browner, he cried in his anger: “The sun is mightier than I; oh, if I were only the sun!”

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**Who acts:** prince, rays, face, sun · **What happens:** look round, wish, see, pour, scorch, hold · **To what, where:** something, spite, heart, umbrella, head, anger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, rays, face, sun), 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:pg2435:20:16
# text = He looked round still for something to wish for, and when he saw that in spite of the water he poured on his grass the rays of the sun scorched it, and that in spite of the umbrella held over his head each day his face grew browner and browner, he cried in his anger: “The sun is mightier than I; oh, if I were only the sun!”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	round	round	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	scorched	scorch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl	_	_
42	over	over	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	det	_	_
46	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl:unmarked	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
50	browner	brown	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	49	xcomp	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	browner	brown	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	conj	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	64	punct	_	_
60	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	64	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nsubj	_	_
63	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	64	cop	_	_
64	mightier	mighty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	55	conj	_	_
65	than	than	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
66	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	64	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	75	punct	_	_
68	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	75	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
70	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	75	mark	_	_
71	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	75	nsubj	_	_
72	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	75	cop	_	_
73	only	only	ADV	RB	_	75	advmod	_	_
74	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	75	det	_	_
75	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	75	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	75	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look round** | past | prince | something |  |  |  | round *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wish** | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **see** | past | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **pour** | past | prince |  |  | spite of the water |  | on prince's grass | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 5 | **scorch** | past | the rays of the sun | heart |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **hold** | participle |  | the umbrella *not said here* |  | prince's head | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Location |
| 7 | **grow** | past | prince's face |  |  | spite of the umbrella |  | brown *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spite=Location |
| 8 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | prince |  |  | prince's anger |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in anger=Location |
| 9 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the sun |  |  |  |  | than prince; mighty *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | prince | the sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **spite** |  |  | the water |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 12 | **ray** |  |  | the sun |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 13 | **spite** |  |  | the umbrella |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 14 | **anger** |  | prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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 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.

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